Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Register, 28 February 1828

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    26 1 SINGAPORE CHRONICLE No. 103. THURSDAY, February 28th, 1828. Public Notifications appearing in this Register and signed by the proper Authorities are to be considered as official
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    Notice.
    67 1 PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That Mr. Alexander Martin, has been appointed Senior Clerk” to the Registrar of the Court of Judicature of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore and Malacca, and that his Office will be opened on the 1st March next at the Court House Commercial Square.— Office
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    SINGAPORE.
    849 1 Thursday Feb. 28th 1828. Since our last there have been no arrivals from Bengal, but the Brigs Colonel Young and Phoenix are daily expected. We intended to have published ere this the annual statement of the exports and imports of the Settlement for 1827. We find however that it
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    Europe.
    1338 2 The commercial letters received yesterday from Gibraltar, express in strong terms the indignation of the writers at an extraordinary circumstance which took place on the 24th ult.—namely, the capture of a vessel bearing the British flag within half gun-shot, as some of our informants describe it, of the batteries
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    AMOY.
    757 2 (From the Canton Register.) It is perhaps new to many of our readers that, while the Portuguese trade with China is confined to Macao, and that of other foreign nations to Canton, the Spaniards have the singular advantage of access to both these ports, besides the exclusive privilege of
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    CHINESE STUDENTS.
    511 2 (From the Malacca Observer.) In Modern times there have been several in Europe —Firstly—Dr. Hager who perished, we believe, in most unsuccessful efforts to acquire Patronage in England and France some twenty years ago. Secondly—Dr. Montucci, a most persevering veteran in Chinese Literature, who after fighting hard with
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    MALACCA.
    503 2 (From the Chinese Chronicle.) Chinese Doctrine of Retribution. The prevailing opinion in China, is that virtue will be prosperous; and vice miserable: but facts do not always support this theory. Therefore they suppose, that when the virtuous are afflicted, their virtues are incomplete and when the vicious are prosperous,
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    MISCELLANEOUS.
    37 2 The Asiatic Elephant. M. Cuvier says that the Asiatic elephant is fifteen or sixteen feet high. This appears to be a great mistake; elephants in India rarely, if ever, exceed eleven feet in height. Asiatic Journ.
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    SUBTERRANEOUS SOUNDS AT NAKOUS.
    2104 2 Baron Humboldt informs us, on the authority of most creditable witnesses, that subterraneous sounds like those of an organ are heard, towards sunrise, by those who sleep upon the granite rocks on the banks of the Orinoco. Messrs. Jomard, Jollois, and Devilliers, three of the naturallists
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    SHIPPING.
    299 3 ARRIVALS. FEBRUARY. 13th British Ship, Heroine, J. P. Hackman, from China 30th Jany, H. N. Majesty’s Schooner, Castor, Lt. Stolze, from Rhio 12 Jany. Portuguese Brig, Esperanca, A. J. de Pegado, from Macao 30 Jany. 14th H. C. Schooner, Elizabeth, Noq. Hajee Mustooffa, from Pinang 5th Inst. l5th British
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