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(B)-ACCOUNT OF THE BALANCE OF QUICK STOCK,

Exhibiting the state of the Company's affairs in respect to their Debts and Assets, as they stood at the several Presidencies and Settlements at the conclusion of the year 1822-3.

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ANNUAL CHARGES paid for the Management of the Company's Trade at the Presidencies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, and the Settlements of Fort Marlborough and Prince of Wales's Island; including the Factory Charges of Canton, for three years preceding 1823-4, with an estimate for that year.

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AMOUNT RECEIVED at the Presidencies of Bengal, Fort St. George, and Bombay, and at the Settlements o. Fort Marlborough and Prince of Wales's Island, for sales of Import Good for the three years preceding 1823-4, with estimate for that year. Also the mount of all Cargoes purchased at these several places, and shipped for Europe by the Company during the same period.

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SIR,

MORE BLESSINGS OF GOOD GOVERNMENT AT NAGPORE.

To the Editor of the Oriental Herald.

Cheltenham, August 6, 1825. YOUR Correspondent from Central India, in his just complaints of patronage and jobbing at Nagpore, falls into one mistake. It is not Captain Bagly, but Bayley, who holds, in contradiction of all orders, so many good things. He is a first cousin of Mr. Secretary Bayley, at Calcutta: hence his good fortune. He is a very young Captain, and probably gets as much pay as a full Colonel. Your Correpondent speaks of Captain Gordon and Lieutenant Gordon: does he not know that they are both brothers of the Burra Doctor Sahib, who, probably, is worth a plum, or near it?

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Nagpore is a very fruitful country: the father-in-law of the latter (having, for some reason, many years ago, quitted the King's service) has likewise the honour of serving the Rajah. He has about 1500 rupees a-month. His son, again, is Adjutant to his father. Lots of paper men," you'll say, in the monthly returns, particularly as the corps is stationed at a distance, and these are the only two Officers. Here are five of one family quartered on the Rajah: two of the party not in the service, and the other three holding several appointments, with enormous salaries. Lieutenant Gordon holds three; and, by way of getting his regimental allowances, he is attached to the Military Escort. As to the elder brother, the Captain, his allowances, altogether, may be about 2300 rupees per month. Pretty well for a Captain, who has done nothing particular, and who is nothing above the common order of

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Your Correspondent alludes to Captain Sandys, and the good things in his grasp. Does he not know that he married Mrs. Smother of the Resident's wife? Lieutenant Slack, another lucky fellow, and who has greater pay than any Lieutenant-Colonel, married the sister of the latter lady: hence his good fortune. Is not your Correspondent aware of the rich appointments held by the Resident's brother and cousin,—the former a young Captain of the Artillery, made a Brigadier of Infantry, with, besides one of those disgraceful monthly Bazar allowances; an impost suppressed in the Company's service, and nothing more than a tax on the supplies, the sepoys, and the people? He has about 3500 rupees per month; the cousin about, or near, 2000. Look at the hosts of persons that Colonel A-- and his Lady, in the shape of relatives or dear friends, quartered like a flight of locusts on this plundered country,-the Rajah of which is a minor!

Let cavillers quit Hyderabad, and go to Nagpore; or let the Government send up a commission, and see what will be seen on due and honest inquiry. This is the Residency, and these are the people, whom Captain Seeley so improperly and partially praises. If the Court of Directors wish for the truth, let them apply to me through your Journal, and they shall soon hear, with candour and honour, from

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MEMOIRS OF MOSES MENDELSOHN.'

THESE Memoirs are well worth reading, for Mendelsohn was an extraordinary man; and the volume before us details, in a very beautiful manner, the means by which he became such. It is very honourable to the character and talents of its author, for the amiable man and the enlightened scholar are discernible in every page. It is very seldom that we have to complain of the brevity of books, but, if any thing, the Memoirs of Mendelsohn are too brief; for the author might undoubtedly have procured, or, perhaps, may possess, more ample details of the private life of his subject. We would not be understood to mean, that, in such cases, we would have a man's common, everyday actions commemorated; but as every extraordinary individual is most extraordinary in the manner in which he nourishes and evolves in secret his intellectual powers, it seems desirable that biography should be minute, which, whatever may be thought, it may very well be without growing prolix. However, Mr. Samuels, the biographer of Mendelsohn, has performed his task with great judgment and industry, having produced a book that deserves to be read and remembered. It might appear hypercritical to go minutely into a consideration of the style; however, we may remark, without prejudice to the author, that the language is not sufficiently simple; but his visible enthusiasm for his subject may be properly pleaded as his excuse. Moses Mendelsohn, it appears, was born at Dessau, in Germany, in September 1729. His father was a poor Jew, who gained his livelihood by transcribing the Pentateuch, and by keeping a day-school for Hebrew children. As education, at that time, was not much attended to among his people, it may be supposed that his avocation enabled him neither to instruct his son himself to any extent, nor to procure him the necessary assistance from others. But Mendelsohn was a proof of the old saying, that genius will educate itself. Desire of knowledge was, from his very earliest years, the ruling passion of his soul. While yet a mere child, he was convinced that he ought to acquire a perfect knowledge of the language of his forefathers; and, accordingly, his first endeavour was to understand the Hebrew grammatically. Although he was afterwards convinced that he had no genius for poetry, it appears that his earliest efforts were devoted to the Muses, for he wrote Hebrew verses before he had reached his tenth year. His memory was exceedingly tenacious : it is said he knew by heart the Law and the Prophets; that is, the greater portion of the Jewish Scriptures.

In speaking of Mendelsohn's fondness for the More Nebochim' (Guide of the Perplexed) of Maimonides, his amiable and interesting biographer either loses sight of the nature of that work, or forgets the age of his subject; for if the More Nebochim' be a profound book, and contain "transcendent beauties," Mr. Samuels, upon second thoughts, will confess that it must have been beyond the comprehension even of Mendelsohn, at ten or eleven years of age. We imagine, indeed, that

'Memoirs of Moses Mendelsohn, the Jewish Philosopher; including the celebrated Correspondence on the Christian Religion, with J. C. Lavater, Minister of Zurich. By M. Samuels. London, 1825. Longman & Co.

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in respect to dates, the author is sometimes inaccurate; he is certainly confused or careless, for it is sometimes impossible, from his account, to know with certainty at what period of his life Mendelsohn did this or that. This, though no mighty matter, is an imperfection; for many things are only worth notice inasmuch as they were performed at a certain age. We have never known boys of ten years to understand Locke's Essay; we conclude that Mendelsohn did not, at that age, understand Maimonides.

His instructer was a Rabbi Frankel, who, before Mendelsohn was fourteen, removed to Berlin. The young philosopher obtained his father's permission to follow his teacher to that city, but appears, on quitting the paternal roof, to have been furnished with very little money; for, on arriving at Berlin, he scarcely possessed sufficient to purchase a single meal. There is something extremely curious in the manner in which he subsisted himself at Berlin; it shows the Jewish character in rather an amiable light, for the Rabbi Frankel, who was not, we may be sure, very rich, on the lad's requesting his assistance for old acquaintance sake, not only interested himself in his behalf, and procured him an asylum in the house of a benevolent friend of his, but also continued to instruct him in the Talmud gratis. The friend who received Mendelsohn into his house, allowed him an attic-room to sleep in, and two days' board weekly; but the author has omitted to mention in this place, how the lad subsisted himself during the other five. Farther on in the volume we learn, it is true, that he gained his livelihood by copying writings for the Rabbi Frankel; but, till he comes to that part where the matter is mentioned merely incidentally, the reader feels an unpleasant suspension of the interest of the narrative, for the mind revolts at every appearance of improbability and mystery; and it is improbable that Mendelsohn should have lived a week on two days' provisions, and mysterious how, if he did not, he found the means of living at all. However, this is explained at length, as we have observed above.

Mild and modest under all circumstances, Mendelsohn appeared to underrate his own abilities; but his biographer must excuse us if we are a little sceptical as to whether he were sincere in his self-depreciation. Mr. Samuels is certainly much mistaken, if he thinks that such a man could have been in earnest when he spoke of his own genius with so much humility. We grant, that by nature he may have been modest and unobtrusive; but modesty itself is sometimes an effect of pride and magnanimity, when a man is so fully conscious of great abilities that he is careless of impressing a similar conviction upon others.

Humility, a virtue which all affect, and very few possess, very naturally took possession of our Jewish sage; for he was not blind to the degraded condition of his nation, and must have felt his own relative insignificance, as a member of society, even among them. The following passage, therefore, may be by no means exaggerated, as it is descriptive of a caste of character which one might look for in such circumstances:

Through his excessive modesty he was deaf to every friendly suggestion to apply to his wealthy brethren for assistance, to enable him to cultivate his studies. On these occasions, he would reply, with his characteristic self-depreciation, "Who am I, and what are my pretensions, that I should become burdensome to others, because, forsooth, I have set my mind on learning? No; I would rather live upon dry brown bread."-This, in point of fact, he often did,

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