22 KIM CM*. 



" And Silence, throned on ChcruU* cloven mound, 

 * Nowiiews the gurhans'Bl- chime and gong's divp mellow 



sound.' 



In other tern**, the Dominie is now Malldne; 

 amount the tlflttnnrf ; with his ri^ht luiiut lie ttiojesti- 

 tit ullv Waves 6vet their heads the talismanie rod for 

 their mental correction and cnli^hti nmrnt, and with 

 his left lie scatters amongst them tlie seeds of science 

 an'l art. ^ 



Those w ho Irrjlfl different opinions will not, of com>e, 

 plant spices, hnt will solace themselves perhaps with 

 tlie cold philosophical reflection, Ihat the prospect of 

 g*$ is dimmed by the risks of war and of other pb& 

 tical or moral changes which, speetral-like, float 



before their eyes, * 



In 1803, the Court of Directors desired that every 

 reasonable encouragement should he given to jbe spirt 

 planters at Penangr, for Dr. Roxburgh, their botauisi, 

 had, in 1S02, reported his decided opinion ihat this is- 

 land was "the most eligible spot of all the Last huba 

 «* Company's possessions for the cultivation of nnt- 

 " mej> and elove trees." The Penang planters, it is 

 believed, only now desire that they may be relieved 

 from all duties at present imposed on their spices; that 

 the duties now exacted l>e still levied on Dutch spices, 

 and that the Dutch traders he prohibited from taking 

 advantage, as they now do, of the very provision which 

 the legislature had, in its liberality, accorded for, as it 

 should seem, the express encouragement and protec- 

 tion of British colonial planters. Batavian merchants 

 have lately,— whether legally or otherwise does not yet 

 appear, — been in the habit of conveying toe spices of 

 the Moluccas to Shiyapore and Malacca, from 

 which places they are shipped for England i \A Ben- 

 gal and consequently pass free of the extr a duty of 

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* The Keddah I Peak, a lofty mountain wiih a remarkable den in it. 

 \ U urban j, or nmsical bowl*. 



