POSTSCRIPT. In closing this Series of THE ORIENTAL HERALD, which has now existed for six years, and extended to twenty-three Volumes, the Editor has the satisfaction of believing, that it has contributed, more than any similar work ever published, to awaken intense and universal attention to the interests of the Asiatic World generally, and of British India in particular. It is this conviction which consoles him for the imputations which some designing and disappointed individuals have so studiously laboured to cast both upon him and his writings; representing his character as every thing base and unworthy, and his productions as having no other end than to fill his purse, and extend his own reputation. He is now, however, too experienced in the history of political controversy, to be moved from his purpose, or to suffer his equanimity to be disturbed by any such arts as these. Both his character and his writings have now been so long before the world, that they must be judged of on their own merits, and not according to the detractive misrepresentations of others. If throughout these last there should now and then have appeared an undue proportion of the record of events in which he himself was an actor, his justification is in this, that the events themselves were important to be recorded, and would have been recorded, whoever had been instrumental in bringing them about; but this task being left to him alone, that circumstance has never deterred him from giving the record, for the sake of the facts themselves, and not for the sake of the organ of their agitation. In this spirit, he has never omitted any opportunity that presented itself, for calling the public attention to India; whether it were a masonic procession, or a public feast as was the case at Glasgow; a Bible Meeting, or a public dinneras was the case at Whitby; a grave lecture, or a gala ball- -as was the case at Newcastle. Whenever, and wherever, in short, the interest of the subject could be made to weave itself with passing events, there has been thought to be the best time and place for adverting to it. And as these scattered parts find no permanent record in any other work, it is well that they are embodied here, since, without this, the people of England would not be aware of the universal feeling existing in places remote from their own; nor would the people of India know-as they now will through this channel-how powerful is the sympathy in British bosoms towards them in their remote abode. In this he founds his justification; and leaves the rest to fate. INDEX TO THE TWENTY-THIRD VOLUME. A. ALMEYDA, Don Francisco de, notice of, 64-death of, 71 Albuquerque, notice of, 64 Alepee, notice of, 72 Australasia, Picture of, 77 Army of the Turks, description of the, 103 Arabic School, description of, 221 Apollinopolis Parvæ, description of, 223 Associations, in different parts of England on the formation of East India, 339 Autumn Evening, 366 B. Buckingham, Mr., Speech of, at the Anniversary of the Whitby Bible Society, 435 Buckingham, Mr., at Whitby, 281-at Stockton, 301-Speech at Glasgow, 403 Bombay to Madras and Calcutta, Voyage from, No. III., 59-No. IV., 244– Bartholomew Diaz, notice of the death of, 63 Broken Lute, the, 76 Bengaree and Bennilloney, two Natives of New Holland, notices of, 82 Bastinado, Anecdote of a Greek who had suffered the, 117 Buckingham's, Mr., Labours in the Country, Progress of, 135-Association at Births, 159. 330 Bazaars at Keneh, 220 Birds of Ceylon, 253 Bouddha, Life of, coincidences between the Life of Christ and the, 257 Benighted Traveller, The, 434 C. Courts, King's, in India, historical sketch of, 3 Criticism, Sacred, No. I., 30-No. II., 177-No. III., 392 Calcutta and Madras, Voyage from Bombay to, No. III., 59—No. IV., 244— No. V., 367 Chitwa, Village of, notice of, 63 Cochin, Historical Sketch of, 63 Cabral, Admiral, notices of, 62 Ceylon, arrival at, 75 Courtships and Marriages of the Natives of New Holland, 81 Currency and Sterling, designations of rank in Australia, 85 Cairo to the Cataracts, Voyage on the Nile, 87. 219 Crocodiles on the Nile, 91. 224 Constantinople, description of, 112 China, Trade to India and, 140 Civil and Military Appointments and Promotions in India, 154. 324. 471 Columbo, description of, 244 Coincidences, between the State of Ceylon and of Egypt, 250 Cape, News from the, 322 Cuddalore, notice of, 377 Covelong, notice of, 376 Cape of Good Hope, statistical Account of the, including Hints on the means of Coringa, notice of, 418 Chicacole, notice of, 428 D. Dying Christian to his Son, 18 Death, on the contemplation of, 28 of her Daughter, to a Lady on the, 50 De Faria, the historian, notice of, 60 Duelling, Native, in Australasia, 79 Diospolis Parva, notice of, 91 Denderah or Tentyra, description of, 92 Debtors, Act for the Relief of Insolvent, in the East Indies, 9 Geo. 4th, c. 73, 133 Deaths, 160. 332 E. Edinburgh Review, and James Mills, Esq., 191 Grant, Sir John Peter, Proceedings before his Majesty's Privy Council, in relation Government, Jurisprudence, &c., Essays on, by James Mill, Esq., 19 Gazelles, notice of the animals called, 88 Gugeh, Convent of, establishment of the, on the Nile, 89 General Orders, extracts from, 152. 323 Government, Home, of India, 163 Greek Slave, The, 213 Governor's Lady, of Ceylon, notice of, 252 Glasgow, Mr. Buckingham's Speech at, 304 H. Habeas Corpus, Writs of, disquisition on the origin and power of, in India, 6 Home Government of India, 163 I. Indians', East, Petition of, to the House of Commons, 261 India, Discontents of the British Army in, 306 Historical Sketch of the King's Courts in, 3 Trade with, 51-204 Home Government of, 163 Invasion of British, 227 East, Slavery and Free Labour Sugar, 119 Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in, 9 Geo. 4th, c. 73, 133 Associations in different parts of England, on the formation of, 339 Indian, East, Monopoly, 142 India and China, Trade to, 140 |