42. A white Half-moon. 42. A white Dragon. 38. The Sun painted white.. 40. A white Flying-horse. A golden Falcon 22. The Neptune. The Neptune gilded. 18. 220 Mahomet Rais, a Turk. Guns. Men. 350 Ally Rais, a Turk. 260 Mustapha Rais, a Greek renegado. 300 Cara Ally Rais, a Turk. 340 Ibrahim Rais, a Turk. 38....320 Ivais Rais, a Greek renegado. 250 Little Ivais Rais, ditto. 7 200 Ryswan Rais, a French renegado. ditto. Commanders. The Dolphin.. A golden Dolphin 6. 110 Usine Rais Collagee, a Turk. A half Galley of 44 oars Her stern black. A ship on the stocks, having 14 ports on a side on her lower deck, and will carry 46 guns." 1. 150 Mahomet Rais, a Turk. WONDER WONDERFUL INFANT. The publick were amused by many absurd stories towards the close of the reign of Charles II. founded on the supposed supernatural powers of an infant but three years of age, who was said to speak several languages fluently. The ignorant exclaimed inspiration! The father, more politic, denied the assertion; and contrived to have the child conveyed to the King at Windsor, in order to convince the monarch it had indeed a most extraordinary faculty of acquiring and retaining correctly those sentences it had been taught. ASIATIC MAGNIFICENCE. The splendour of the Eastern Monarchs has been the theme of historians from the period when Moses composed his inspired writings to the present moment; it has unquestionably surpassed that of all other nations, but is rapidly declining, through certain causes which may be divined without much difficulty. Making due allowance for exaggeration, an old and common fault with many travellers, our thanks are due to Benjamin Harris, Editor of "The Domestic Intelligence," for "A letter from an English Merchant at Decan, a city near Surat in the East Indies, belonging to the Great Mogul, dated November 20, 1678." "I arrived here the 31st past, and found this city of Decan grown poor and almost lifeless for want want of trade. Shaftch Chaan, who is uncle to the Emperor, and has been for some time governor of this province, being called back from hence to the court, is departed from this city a few days since with his retinue of Paschars, Mahall and other servants, being a vast multitude of near two hundred thousand people; having left Decan almost as it were gasping: the immense wealth he carried away with him being hardly credible, having near 400 land carriages, and as many great boats to convey it. He went away with all the splendour and gallantry imaginable, attended with 12,000 horse and 800 elephants. It would be too tedious to insist upon particulars, and would appear like a romance, only that it is thought this Governor is like to be a great favourite at the Emperor's court; and if so, it will be well for the English. He is resolved to dazzle the eyes of all persons with his magnificence. Preparations are making for his public entrance into Delhi; and the Emperor is to be presented (according to the custom of that country when governors are called home) in the manner following; upon the first day with an hundred elephants, and their cloth furniture, and on each of them a bag of 5000 rupees; on the second day an hundred elephants more, with their furniture of gold; on the third an hundred more, with their furniture of silver; and for twenty days days after, five elephants a day, till the whole number of 400 elephants be completed. This Shaftch Chaan bought every year a thousand maund of copper, on purpose to make copper chests to hold his gold; his expences were. 20,000l. sterling every day (Query, good Merchant, every month?); and in beetle only 100l. daily; his yearly revenue of Bengal only is threescore millions of pounds sterling; the yearly revenue of Hugly is 90,000l. sterling. Shaftch Chaan kept for fourteen years last past 1000 camels to be ready to carry his treasure when the king should send for him. He never went a hunting with less than 100,000 men; he kept two thousand women and eight hundred elephants." POLICY IN RELIGION. Violent and ardent were the struggles of the Roman Catholics for ascendancy about 1680; plots, counter-plots, fire, poison, assassination, and the gallows, were common terms with the Protestants when charging them on this head. The words "hellish," and "damnable," were in constant use upon every trivial occasion; and the Papists had the general character of the "most accomplished persons upon earth in the kindling and promoting of fires." It is well known that the majority of the inhabitants of England were inflexibly determined to to resist the revival of the antient faith of their forefathers; they more than suspected their Royal family intended to restore it: they therefore exerted the rights of a majority over a minority, and justly punished those whose zeal prompted them to transgress the laws enacted to suppress the Roman-catholic religion. Policy led the Protestants to bend the vulgar mind to their purposes, by hand-bilis and pamphlets, and paragraphs in the newspapers suited to their capacities, in which every diabolical act conceived by man was dressed in the coarsest language, and attached to the priesthood of the obnoxious party; a specimen or two may not be unacceptable as an illustration, the titles are sufficient. "The whore of Babylon's p-y priest; or, a true narrative of the apprehension of William Geldon alias Bacon, a secular priest of the church of Rome, now prisoner in Newgate; who had just before been above two months in cure for the -; wherein is inserted a true copy of the Apothecaries bill found in his chamber, containing the whole process of that Reverend father's cure, with several other remarkable relations and proofs of the debaucheries and villanies of the Popish clergy in general." 1679-80, Another "True Narrative" was pronounced " very necessary to be known by all persons, to serve as an ANTIDOTE, to keep them from being preju |