Royal Marines.

When his Majesty's ship Concorde, captain Wood, arrived at Trincomale, and the royal marines on board heard of the massacre of our troops by the Candians, they immediately, with a characteristic burst of true British indignation, addressed captain Wood in the following terms: We, the noncommissioned officers and privates of the party of royal marines, now serving under your command, always having our king and country at heart, wish to volunteer our service to act on shore, if required, on any duty, as our hearts pant for so many of our brave countrymen who have fallen by the inhuman massacre of the king of Candy."

LOSS OF THE SHIP ST. GEORGE.

Extract of a Letter from Bombay,

dated July, 1803.

On Thursday morning, the ship Saint George, captain Urquhart, struck upon the south-west prong of the reef, from which the utmost exertions of her captain, officers, and crew, aided by the officers of the port, who went immediately to her assistance, could not relieve her.-The cargo we are informed is completely damaged, the captain, officers, and crew were all brought off in safety by the boats of the harbour.

We have been favoured with the particulars of this unfortunate accident from the account of the captain.

Wednesday, 22nd June, 1803.

First part light breeze from the westward, at 4 A. M. hove short on the small bower, at 5 o'clock weighed and made sail, and at 8 anchored to the S. E. of the middle ground in 6 fathom water; at slack water weighed and made sail, working out of the harbour; at past 4 P. M. lieutenant Hardy left the ship; the light house, then bearing N. E. in fathom water, standing to the N. W. in company with a ship and brig.

At 6 P. M. set the following bearings, the light house N. E. & N. Malabar Point N. b E. E. the northern-most part of great Caranja E. N. Kenera S. b E. E.; at past 9, finding the ebb done, tacked and stood to the S. S. W. but soon finding the wind die away and the tide setting us bodily in shore, came to an anchor in 7 fathoms, the light house bearing E. N. E.

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Thursday, June 23d-At 4 A. M. a fine breeze springing up and the ebb tide being made, weighed and made sail, the brig under way on our lee bow ;--at 5, not being able to weather the S.W. prong, put the helm down in 7 fathom, but the ship missing stays, gathered stern way, and before she could be brought up by an anchor, she struck abaft, and unshipped the rudder, (the water having decreased to 4 fathom while the ship was in stays) being now ungovernable, she drove higher up with the surf, and soon settling on a rock amidship, filled with water;-got the boats out, and made the signal of distress-some hands employed to

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cut away the sails from the yards, and to collect the most valuable of the ships stores to send on shore in the event of boats coming off. At 10, the flood setting in strong with a fresh breeze from the sea, the surf made clear passage over the ship, which cbliged the people to take refuge in the rigging, the ship's boats having broken a-drift some time before, while we were employed in collecting the stores ; as the ship still held together, we did not incline to leave her, being of opinion that all her stores might be saved, but the pattamars not being able to fetch us, the ship having parted at midships at 12, and all her deck under water, with a very heavy surf breaking clearover her, thought it imprudent to risk the peoples' lives any longer, and having got a Bunder boat with great difficuity made fast to the jibboom, every person left the ship by that means, after having done every thing in their power to save her, and latterly her stores, but without effect.

their log, "they landed in the dress they were ordered to wear, about a degree to the south ward of Bombay;" two men were killed in the attack of her, and the captain and first lieutenant badly wounded, with five of the men: when they were boarded the lieutenant scudded below, but it was for the dispatches, which he brought up and threw overboard, a marine made a dash at them, but they were weighted, and went down before he could catch them From the information captain Bingham obtained from some of the people i. e. two lascars, and a China-man, who were pressed on board, he has every reason to suppose there is a frigate on the coast; he expects an action every day. The Dasher is here, but just getting under weigh to over-haul a ship in the offing. The captain of the prize is Du Tent, the same who took the Triton, last war, and was very near taking her again, for he saw her coming down, on her way to the other coast; he had seen several other vessels, and had an exact drawing of them all in his log-book: but he was not to go out of his course till he had executed the object on which he was dispatched, and then he meant to have perused the coast, to see what he could pick up. The Fiorenzo, however, stopped his career before he had done any mischief.

BOMBAY Occurrences for Jan. 1804.

Quarter Sessions.

On Saturday last, the quarter sessions of Oyer and Terminer, and goal delivery, commenced before Sir Benjamin Sulivan, knt. and his associates, Robert Kitson, and Simon Halliday, esqrs.

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The grand jury being sworn in, the honorable the recorder informed them of the bills which would be Jaid before them, and explained the duties which they were expected by the constitution to fulfil, and on the due discharge of which so much depended.

The court was then adjourned till Monday the 9th; when, having met, it was proposed by Mr. Dowdeswell, as counsel for two prisoners accused of a murder at Surat, that their trial should be put off till next sessions, in consequence of the dangerous illness under which one of them laboured, and which rendered it impossible for him to undergo the fatigue of a long trial. Dr. Keir being called upon and confirming this statement, Mr. Threipland, as counsel for the prosecution, consented that the trial of the prisoner who was sick,and who was only charged as an accessary in the indictment, should be postponed; but strongly insisted, on the part of the crown, that he was intitled to proceed with the trial of the other prisoner, for which he was the more solicitous as the witnesses had come from such a distance, and it might be difficult or impossible to procure the attendance of all of them at a future period. The court, after some discussion, having concurred in this, Robert Frazer, private in the 65th regiment, was placed at the bar, charged with the murder of one Hirjannah, a boy of 16 years of age, by stabbing him to the heart with a bayonet, while accompanying the funeral of a native, and employed in carrying sacred fire in front of the procession. The deed appeared to have been committed without the slightest provocation, but none of those who were present when the wound was given,

could identify the person of the prisoner; they all swore, however, that he was one of the two by whom the party at the funeral was attacked; that they were both soldiers, and armed with bayonets; and that it was either the prisoner or his comrade who struck the blow. To compensate, however, for the proof falling short in this respect, it was clearly established that when Frazer was arrested, in less than an hour after the murder was committed, he had his belt and scabbard, but no bayonet ; and it was likewise proved that a bayonet was soon after found near the spot, with a great deal of fresh blood upon it, and bearing the same number and letter which the serjeant of the prisoner's company swore belonged to his bayonet, and corresponded with the number on his musket, for which no bayonet had ever since been found; but he added, that the practice of ascer taining bayonets by number and letter was customary in the army; and that there were detachments from different regiments in Surat at the time. The fact being so far brought home to the prisoner, Mr. Thriepland proceeded to call those who apprehended his comrade, all of whom swore, that he had a bayonet in his hand when they came up with him, that there was no appearance of blood upon it, and that its point was extremely blunt.

On being produced, this was made evident, and another serjeant swore he knew it to belong to Stewart, who was sick in prison, from the letter and number stamped upon it. Dr. Pouget was then called, who swore that the wound appeared to have been given with a sharp-pointed instrument, and that it must have been the cause of

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death. Such was the import of the evidence in this case, which lasted till near five o'clock, when the jury having retired to consider of their verdict, returned, in about half an hour, and pronounced the prisoner not guilty.

On Tuesday the 10th, the court having met at the usual hour, Peter Stewart, the soldier above referred to as having been accessary to the murder of which Frazer was acquitted, was brought into court, supported by two peons, and being placed at the bar, and a jury sworn, Mr. Threipland said, that in consequence of the verdict which had been returned in the other trial, he did not feel it to be his duty to adduce any witnesseses against the prisoner. He was of course discharged.

The trial of Mulharry Baloo, shoemaker, for the murder of his wife, came on next, and disclosed a scene of such atrocious cruelty, that Mr. Thriepland concluded his address to the jury by saying, that he would not make them sick by dwelling any longer on the facts of the case, but content himself with trusting that their verdict would be the means of ridding the world of a monster, whose conduct had been more characteristic of a wild beast

than of a human being. The evidence fully justifying this state ment, (for it appeared that in a fit of rage and jealousy, he had not only cut his wife's throat, but ripped up her body so that the lungs were separated) and the shocking facts being clearly substantiated, he was immediately convicted.

The court then proceeded to the trial of Gungaram Antaram, Naique, in the late fencible regiment, accused of the murder of one Somjee Dowra, by shooting him with a musket, on the 17th day of October last. It appeared that jealousy had been the cause of this atrocious act, as it likewise was of the former murder; and the fact being clearly proved, the jury found the prisoner guilty.

On the 11th the court proceeded to the trial of the only remaining indictment, which was for perjury; and the prisoner Herjevan Assarum being convicted of that offence, was sentenced to six months imprisonment, to pay a fine of 100 rupees, and to stand twice in the pillory.

Mulharry Baloo was then sentenced to be executed on Saturday the 14th inst. and to be hung in chains; and Gunaram Antaram to be transported for fourteen years.

finitive Treaty of Peace, on the part of the Hon. Company and its allies, with Dowlut Rao Scindeal.

A royal salute, and three vollies of musketry, were fired at all the stations of the land forces serving in the East Indies, in commemoration of this glorious event.

Mr. Edward Galley, late Collector

of Surat.

We are concerned to state, that owing to a prevalence of winds in and about Surat, which are little expected at this season of the year, an unhealthiness has appeared there which, it is hoped, will be but of short duration. With regret, however, we announce the loss which that small, but respectable community have sustained in the death of Edward Galley, esq. of the honorable company's civil service, and principal collector of that city and its dependencies.

The favorable opinion entertained by government of the late Mr. Galley, as a company's servant, will appear by the following extract of instructions to him on his appointment as collector of Surat, on the occasion of the introduction of the new system then established for the management of the revenue in that part of the country in the month of July 1800.

"In consideration of the great "attention that will be required "from you, in superintending so "novel and detailed a revenue

tability of your own character " will, he doubts not, justify this "deviation from a general rule; ‘ "the more especially as the hon. company need not be, neither directly or indirectly, losers thereby, since the emoluments "of your office as collector of the "castle aud tankha revenues, of "which you have very honorably "laid before the governor an ac

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count for the two last years, will, by being from the 1st of this month, brought, as he now directs, to the public account, compensate the allowance in question."

On the 21st of April, 1803, Mr. Galley was, on the death of Mr. Seton, appointed to act as lieutehe was, after some necessary modinant governor of Surat; in which fication of that department, confirmed on the 3d of September last, under the new official designation of agent for government, in all which situations his conduct has merited and received the repeated approbation of his superiors.

Extract from a letter from capt.

Page, dated Jan. 6, 1804.

"I had the good fortune to capture the French privatèer brig Les Freres Unis, of 140 tons, pierced for sixteen nine and six-pounders, but with only eight on board, and having 134 men on board, fifteen of whom were officers, and forty soldiers, from Bourdeaux in July, and from Mauritius the 11th Nov. going to cruise off the Sand Heads, and had not made a capture."

Extract of a letter from capt.Page, dated Feb. 14.

"I am arrived at Kedgeree, in his majesty's ship under my command,