Gazette Of The United States

A correspondent has been so obliging as to furnish us with two papers, printed at Madras, in India, from which we have extracted the following paragraph:—

BENGAL, JANUARY 17.

DEHLI.

The fate of Gholoum Khadir Khan has been at length determined upon, and the mode of punishment prescribed: His eyes are first to be scooped from their sockets, with a similar instrument to that with which he caused the unfortunate King's to be extracted; in this situation he is to remain for a certain time, in order that he himself may feel those agonizing and unspeakable sufferings which he had occasioned to another; he is then to be conducted to a place prepared for the occasion, and interred to the middle, in which posture he is to continue, to be shot at with poisoned arrows, until he expires. His offences, it must be admitted, have been monstrous; his punishment, however, we are sorry to say, tho seemingly accommodated to his actions, is a species of refined retribution which too strongly marks the sanguinary principles which, unfortunately for mankind, still influence Eastern governments. It may be said, that it suits despotic States, where whatever inspires fear, is the properest spring of government; but the voice of nature cries loudly against it.