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joining to the orders of the empire 

 the Military Order of St. George. 

 You will accept at the same time 

 the assurances of my unalterable 

 sentiments. 



(Signed) "Alexander." 

 " TopUtz, Sept. 15 (27), 1813." 



Shadviell. — An investigation at 

 the above office into the late dan- 

 gerous riot among the Chinese 

 Lascars, in which three men were 

 killed, and about seventeen wound- 

 ed, terminated this day with the 

 commitment of some of the ring- 

 leaders. The following is an ab- 

 stract of the most material evi- 

 dence :— 



Abrahim Gola, superintendant 

 <Jf natives of India, stated, that in 

 a place called King David's Fort, 

 there are about 500 Chinese in the 

 barracks belonging to the East 

 India Company. Of these there are 

 two sects, one called the Chenies, 

 the other the Chin Choo. On 

 visiting their barracks about eight 

 o'clock on the morning of the 13th 

 inst. he found them in a state of 

 hostility; one sect fighting the 

 other with knives and implements 

 of every description. He imme- 

 diately directed the gates to be 

 shut to prevent the offenders from 

 •. escaping. He then sent for and 

 procured the assistance of several 

 of the police officers, on seeing 

 whom approach, the contest in a 

 great measure subsided. The offi- 

 cers immediately proceeded to dis- 

 arm them of their weapons, which, 

 by this time they attempted to 

 conceal. On searching their chests 

 and hammocks, all their knives, 

 &c. were taken away. One man 

 was found dead, with his bowels 

 ripped open. Seven were carried 

 to the London Hospital, severely 

 •wounded; two of whom arc since 



dead. The Chenies overcame the 

 Chin Choo by superiority of num- 

 bers. The witness was informed 

 that a cutler on Tower-hill was 

 employed to make instruments for 

 the Chinese. He found his name 

 was Cramer : he acknowledged 

 that he had recently sold two sets of 

 large knives to them, and had been 

 commissioned to make them a 

 further supply, which his work- 

 men were then executing. These 

 the witness saw : they were large 

 knives, with wooden handles, the 

 blade about the size of a common 

 cutlass. Cramer being apprised of 

 their intended use, promised they 

 should not be delivered. Several 

 of the Lascars were afterwards 

 stopped at the Barrack-gate, in the 

 act of bringing such instruments 

 with them, which they delivered 

 up, not without some struggle, 

 and an attempt to use them against 

 the officers for making the seizure. 



The origin of this affair appears 

 to be thus, by the evidence of the 

 parties : — A Chenies being at play 

 with a Chinn Choo, they quarrelled 

 about \s. 6d. which one had lost 

 and refused to pay : they came to 

 blows, and on a subsequent day 

 they renewed the combat with 

 knives. Too Sugar, a Chin-Choo, 

 now in the hospital, is alleged to 

 have begun the contest, by calling 

 to his sect to come and fight the 

 Chenies. Hence it appears each. 

 sect caught the contagion of quar- 

 rel from these two, when the ren- 

 counter became general. 



Of those in custody, three have 

 been discharged for want of evi- 

 dence. The following are to take 

 their trial, viz. Appui, Appong, 

 Chong, and Peu. 



; Dreadful Inundaliovs in Ger- 

 many.^ (From the Austrian Ob- 



