GENERAL HISTORY. 



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to massacre their European officers 

 whilst assembled at an entertain- 

 ment to be given by the British re- 

 sident at that court. It was dis- 

 closed by a confidential sepoy, and 

 the ringleaders were seized upon, 

 two of whom, native officers, were 

 blown from a cannon in front of 

 the line drawn up to witness their 

 punishment. Several Nairs and 

 Faquirs, instigators of the mutiny, 

 were afterwards hung. 



Governor Farquhar of the Mau- 

 ritius made public, in May, a cor- 

 respondence with Rear-Admiral 

 Stopford at the Capeof Good Hope, 

 in which the latter announces his 

 receipt from England of the act 

 imposing fresh penalties against 

 any further traffic in slaves, and 



declares the impossibility of suffer- 

 ing the admission of slaves into the 

 islands under his excellency's go- 

 vernment. At the same time the 

 governor informed the merchants, 

 planters, and other inhabitants of 

 the islands, that regulations had 

 been made for trade between Eng- 

 land and them, by which they were 

 placed on the same footing with 

 the private merchants in other parts 

 of India. 



Accounts were received from 

 Persia that a definitive treaty of 

 alliance between that government 

 and Gieat Britain had been con- 

 cluded by Sir Gore Ouseley, on 

 terms highly advantageous to this 

 country. 



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