"The dispatches brought by this ship from Sir Hudson Lowe must have discovered to our government something like a new era in the life of Buonaparte. When Sir Hudson took the command at the island, Buonaparte gave himself many airs; one was he refused to see any visitors; another-he would not take any out-door exercise. It would appear, that, as he could not obtain the smallest relaxation of the regulations established for his safety, he hereby intended to render them practically inoperative. Pursuing this course, the want of exercise in the open air became a powerful auxiliary to his perturbed state of mind in sapping the foundation of his health: so that now his body discovers strong symptoms of weakness and emaciation, and his mind of sullen despair. He does nothing with regularity that depends upon himself; he will dine, in the course of a week, at almost every hour of the day and night from twelve at noon until midnight. He is necessitat ed, the moment he rises in the morning, to go into a warm bath, and there stay until he feels his sluggish functions invigorated the failure of which would quickly threaten his life. These new, cheerless, and unsocial manners, as may be easily imagined, have produced in his followers something like a distaste for the company of a banished Emperor.-Las Cases has, indeed, plainly manifested a defection. It is expected that he is playing the game of a genuine Frenchman of the Bonapartean school. Soon after Bonaparte arrived there, Las Cases commenced, as is known, employment in collecting materials for writing the life of his mas ter; kept an academy. a clever, artful man; his son, who has accompanied him, 1 CO PERSIAN GULF. Discovery of Eight Islands. (Concluded from page 203.) Dalmy island.-South westerly direc tion from Arzenie in latitude 24° 36' N longitude per chronometer 52° 24' E. bearing SW. S. 4 leagues, appears rather high; darker colour than the former island, has. to the northward a round hill, below which the boundary is bluff but not high; the northern extremity terminates in a low sand, off which a shoal extends nearly two miles, and ought not to be approached under 7 fathoms, as the overfalls are sudden; to the south eastward the island is nearly of an equal height, two or three hummocks above a very low sandy point from north to south, and is about 6 miles in length, beyond which the pilot informed me a shoal extends to a considerable distance; and it is recommended not to go to the southward of this island, as the overfalls are sudden, and several small islands and sand-banks extend from the Main which is said to be very low and distant twenty miles to the southward of this island. The channel between Arzenie and Dalmy is perfectly clear of shoals, but the overfalls are sudden from 15 to 21 and 12 to 7 fathoms, fine coral sand. Seer Beni Yass Island.-South easterly direction from Dalmy, in latitude 24° 34' N. longitude per chronometer 52° 40' E. bearing S. E. by S. 5 leagues, rather high in the centre and very rugged appearance terminating to the north western extremity in a low sandy point, apparently 7 or 8 miles in length. The pilot informed me the point nearly joins the main land leaving a narrow channel only navigable for small pearl boats. The whole coast to the westward, being very low, off which there are several small islands and they are considered dangerous to approach. The channel between Arzenie and Seer Beni Yass is deemed safe by the pilot. Danie Island.-North westerly direction from Dalmy in latitude 25° 1 N. longitude per chronometer 52° 20' E. is very low nearly on a level with the sea, about 2 miles in length and very narrow, the colour of the sand so nearly resembles the horizon in hazy weather, that great caution and a good look out are requisite when approaching it. The above described islands appear formed of the same metallic substance as the Islands of Polior, the Tombs, &c. &c. off the Persian side of the Gulf, of a brownish colour, their base being formed of coral. They are said not to produce any good fresh water, but by digging wells, I have every reason to imagine from the appearance of the soil and what I witnessed on the island of Arzenie, the rain having formed high banks by the rapidity of its torrents, good water might be procured. I do not imagine any of these islands are equal to much cultivation without the aid of considerable industry, but their situation appears particularly convenient, as they are placed nearly in the centre of a very extensive pearl fishery on which the finest pearls in the world are produced, the season for the fishery from April to September; the extent of the bank is 200 miles in length, East and West and North and South 70 miles. The exact position of these islands I am afraid will not be found quite accurate as their positions are stated merely from cross bearings and the strongly heated atmosphere had considerably affected the rate of my chronometer; and the sun and moon not being within distance together, with occasionally hazy weather, caused some difficulty to be surmounted with respect to judging of the imaginary distance off shore, but I hope their situations are sufficiently accurate to render the strangers to this side of the Gulf some assistance in navigating their vessels. Dauss Jaramain Sherarou Island.-To the north westerly direction of Danie in latitude 25° 13' N. longitude per chronometer 52° 18' E. bearing N. N. W. 12 miles, appears low with two small hummocks on each extremity and off the northern point at half a mile a small rock projects above water, and a few smaller rocks off some white sandy Arzenie bays at the foot of the hummocks, which appear formed of dark metallic substance: the island is narrow and about 3 or 4. miles in length: in a north western direc. Dalmy tion from this isle, the coast ought to be approached with care as it is very low but said to be clear of shoals. The channel between Danie and Sherarou is clear of shoals, but the overfalls are rather sudden; but we had not less than 3 fathoms, sand and a mixture of white coral. Hawlool Island.-North easterly direc tion of Sherarou in latitude 25° 41' N. longitude per chronometer 52° 23′E. bearing N. N. W. distance 10 miles, appears Seer Beni Lat. 25° 10' N. Long. per chro. 52? 45' E. Lat. 25° 8'N. Long. per chro. 52° 55'. Long. per chro. 52° 33' Va- Lat. 24° 56' N. Long per chro. 52° 42' July Long. per chro. 52° 40'July 14th 4° 39' W. Lat. 25° 1' N. Long, per chro.52° 20' July 15th 3° 59' W. Yass Danie Lat. 52o 13' N. Sherarow Hawlool NEW SOUTH WALES. Another dreadful Massacre by the Natives of the Marquesas Islands. (From the Sydney Gazette, Nov. 8, 1815.) By the Governor Macquarrie are arrived, Captain Fowler, and part of the crew of the Indian brig Matilda, which sailed from this colony in August, 1813, bound on a voyage to the Derwent and Eastern Islands, and from thence to China; but was cut off and plundered, on the night of the 10th of April last, while lying at anchor in Duff's Bay, at the island of Rooapoah, one of the Marquesas, on a sandal-wood voyage. Five of the crew (Poomootoo men) had previously deserted, and joining with some of the Rooapoah natives, took the opportunity of a dark night, and the wind blowing fresh right on the land, to cut the vessel adrift; by which means she drove ashore, through a heavy surf, and was soon bilged and filled with water. When the cannibal natives saw that it was impracticable to get the vessel afloat, they concurred universally in the design of putting the whole of her crew to death which appears to have been a constant practice among the different natives towards one another, when their canoes happen to fall upon a strange shore, through stress of weather, or from any other accident. ; Capt. Fowler had formed an intimacy with their chief, or king, Nooahetu, who presided at the horrible tribunal that had devoted the unfortunate mariners to instant slaughter. He withheld his assent to the murder; but had no hesitation in permitting the plunder of the vessel. The crew were informed, by such expressions as they could understand, as well as by gesticulations that accompanied their vehement debate on the occasion, that their lives were dependent on the issue; the good chief was opposed by many other chiefs, who, though somewhat inferior in rank, were very far superior in number, supported by the common usages of the island, from which the exhibition of clemency appeared an insufferable deviation. He was seated, with his son by his side, on a mat in his own dwelling; he had been called to the supremacy of the island by the general wish of the people, as it was not an hereditary right but an elective dignity. His people pressed their solicitations earnestly, and at length peremptorily demanded his assent to the sacrifice, which he for a length of time opposed by the force of words, which not seeming likely to prevail, he adopted a method which silenced the whole in an instant, and saved the lives of Captain Fowler and his crew. Finding that all his expostulations were defeated upon the principle of undeviating custom, he deliberately took up two ropes that Asiatic Journal. No. 15. ; were near him, and fixing one round the neck of his son, and the other round his own, called to the chief next in command, who immediately approached him. His conference was short and decisive he first pointed to the cord that encircled the neck of his son, and then to the other, which he had entwined round his own. "These strangers are doomed to death," said he, " by my chiefs and my people, and it is not fit that I, who am their King, should live to see so vile a deed perpetrated. Let my child and myand then it never will be said that we self be strangled before it is performed: sanctioned, even with our eye-sight, the destruction of these unoffending people." The magnanimity of such a conduct could not do less than produce, even in the mind of the unenlightened savage, a paroxysm of surprise, mingled with a sentiment of admiration, in which the untaught man may possibly excel his fellow-creature whose conceptions are moulded by tenets calculated to guard him from the extremes of passion. For a moment the people looked wildly upon their King, whose person they adored, because that his principles were good and his government just and mild. They saw the obedient chief, to whom the order of strangulation had been imparted, staring with horror and amazement at the change which a few moments had produced; the mandate, which had proceeded from the King's own lips, must be obeyed; and commanded to perform the dreadful office, he proceeded to obeywhen a sudden shout from the multitude awed him to forbearance. "The King! the King!" from every lip burst forth"What! kill the King! No, no, let all the strangers live-no man shall kill the King!" Thus were their lives preserved, and the vessel plundered of every thing on board her. The floor of the Greenwich, which was burnt at Nooaheva, still remains, and is dry at low water. All her iron and copper have been taken out by the natives, who have a thorough knowledge of the use of these materials. That they are cannibals is well ascertained. They form distinct factions, and make war upon the ruling chief; the rebels are denominated the Typees, and the opposite parties are horribly sanguinary towards each. Six of the adverse party were killed and devoured by the rebels while Captain Fowler was among them, and the following detestable circumstance occurred on the occasion:-A native man belonging to Port Anna Maria, who was not tattooed, and in consequence prohibited from the eating of human flesh on pain of death, impatient of the restraint, fell upon one of the murdered bodies, and darting his teeth into it in all the madness VOL. III. 2 S of a voracious fury, exhaled the crimson moisture, which had not yet coagulated. The chief of Port Anna Maria, who is very friendly to Europeans, is named Ke-atta-nooe; the first part of the name implying the outrigger of a canoe, and and the latter signifying great. The dress of the men consists merely of a wrapper about the waist; the women are covered from the shoulders downwards to the ancles, and are generally fairer than the Taheitan women. The chiefs have no distinguishing mark or ornament, but in the mode of wearing their hair; which the common orders wear tied up in a large knot on each side of the head, a stripe of which, extending from the forehead to the hollow of the neck, is kept shorn, which practice the chiefs do not adopt. Captain Fowler supposes the worms to be more prevalent and destructive to ships' bottoms there than he has any where witnessed: and to this cause attributes the caution of the natives in drawing up their largest canoes, some of which contain from 80 to 100 warriors. They are anxious after every kind of property carried among them for barter, and this is supposed their chief inducement for attacking vessels, when they can do so with a probability of accomplishing their object. They have no knowledge of the use of muskets, and have none among them except a few at Port Anna Maria. A gentleman, at this time in Sydney, who resided among them about 15 years ago, in a missionary capa. city, describes them as a people constantly employing their thoughts on plunder, and devising schemes for taking advantage of strangers. Their population is very numerous; which he remarked to some of them, to whom he gave a description of Otaheite; observing, at the same time, that its inhabitants were less numerous. LONDON MARKETS. Tuesday, February 25, 1817. Cotton. The sales since our last are limited, Owing to the decline in the prices of the country markets; the purchases here are limited to a few East-India descriptions, at various prices: small parcels of Pernams at 2s id; Bahias 2s Surinams 28 a 2s 1d. The East-India Company have declared for sale, 7th proximo, above 5,500 bales Bengals, and the general opinion is, that the quantity will be increased to nearly 8,000 bags. Sugar,-In foreign Sugars there has been little business effected, though the enquiries after them have been considerable.-The East-India Company last week brought forward 10, 114 bags. The following were the prices-Bengal good white 50s a 54s; middling 42s 6d a 468; ordinary brown 32s a 39s 6d, Java brown 36s 6d a 39s 6d; yellow 41s a 44s 6d; Bourbon brown 38s a 38s 6d; soft 34s 6d. Coffee. The holders of West India Coffee look with confidence to a revival in the demand, and the advance of the prices yesterday at the India House holds out the probability of the immediate revival of the market. On Friday the Company brought forward above 24,000 bags, about 10,000 were sold on that day, at the following prices, -Yellow Cheribon 75s a 76s; Pale Cheribon 70s 6d a 72s; Brown and pale damaged 62s 6d a 71s; Mocha ordinary 90s 6d a 101s; good 109s 6d a 110s 6d; damaged 95s a 96s. At the adjourned sale on Monday the following prices were realized-Cheribon 755 6d a 76s 6d, and 72s a 78s; being an advance of is a 2s on the currency of Friday. Bourbon 72s a 76s; the Java withdrawn 80s a 83s. Spices-The prices of Cinnamon have advanced. The Ginger sold by the East-India Company also commands a small premium Pepper remains steady, Company's old 7d.-Other Spices are to be purchased at nearly the sale prices. This forenoon, 595 bags Pimento by public sale, the sound went off at 7d a 8d. Salpetre. By public sale, 2,661 bags, 37s a 37s 6d. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, & DEATHS, From the London Gazette of Jan. 28, St. James's Palace, Jan. 27.-Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cumberland was this day delivered of a still born female child. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, and several Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, were present, In Wimpole street, the lady of the Right Hon. Lord Bridport, of a daughter. At Salton Hail, North Britain, the Right Hon, Lady E. Balfour, of a daughter, At Powerscourt House, Cheltenham, the lady of Sir H, Hoskyns, Bart, of Harewood House, in the county of Hereford, of a son, At the East-India House, on the 23d of January, the lady of J, Dart, Esq, of a son. In Aug. last, at Topsham, in Devon, the lady of the late Capt. A. R. Hughes, of the Madras N. I. of a daughter. In York-place, Portman-squale, the wife of J. Hume, Esq. of a daughter. At Kemsey Lodge. Worcester, the lady of Maj.Gen, Sir R. H. Sheaffe, Kart, of a daughter. At Earsham Hall, Norfolk, the Hon. Mrs. Meade, lady of Lieut.-Gen Meade, of a daughter. In Welbeck street, Cavendish squar, Mrs. Burdon, wife of W. Burdon, Esq. ofa son. At the Rookery, Dedham, the lady of W. B. Goodrich, Esq. of a daughter. At Seaham, in the county of Durham, the lady of H. Tower, Esq. of a daughter. At Elysium, Waterford, the lady of J. Alcock, Esq. treasurer of that city, of a son. The wife of Major Chambers, of the 41st reg. of a daughter. The lady of Dr. Darwin, of Lichfield, of a daugh ter. The ady of G. Meynell, Esq. of Langley, Derbyshire, of a daughter. The lady fT Cholmondeley, Esq. of Vale Royal, Cheshire, of a son, In North-street, Vestminter, Mrs. Power, wife of D. Power, Esq. of a son. At her father's house, in Harley-street, the lady of Capt. Beaufort, R. N. of a son. At Dunherrin Glebe, King's County, the lady of the Very Rev. the Dean of Clonfert, of a son, In New Norfolk-street, Park-lane, the lady of A, W. Robarts, Esq. of a daughter. At Colehill, in Kent, the seat of H, Darell, Esq. the lady of E, Darell, Esq, of a son and heir, At Edinburgh, the lady of G. M. Grant, Esq. M. P. of a daughter, MARRIED. Feb. 22. At the New Church, Marylebone, T. S, Raffles, Esq. late Deputy Governor of the Island of Java, to Miss S. Hull, eldest daughter of J, W, Hull, Esq. late of Great Baddow, Essex. By special license, at the Earl of Beauchamp's, in Worcestershire, by the Rev. R. Pyndar, the Earl of Longford, to Lady G. Lygon, daughter of the late and sister of the present Earl of Beauchamp. At Kilmurray Church, Limerick, by the Rev, 1, Ingram, J. N Smith, Esq. Colonel in the Bengal Military Establishment, to Miss E. Dodd, of Richmond Place. At Ugbrooke Park, Devonshire, the Hon. Mr. Lonsdale, of Houghton, Yorkshire, to the Hon. Miss Char. Clifford, daughter of Lord Clifford, At St, George's Church, Hanover-square, Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart, to Lady H. A, Clive, eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Pow!s. By special license, at St, George's Church, Hanover-square, by the Right Rev, the Lord Bishop of London, Lieut, Col, Sir G, Campbell, Bart, eldest son of the late Lieut.-Gen. C. Campbell, to F, Elizabeth, eldest daughter and co heiress of M, Burgoyne, Esq. of Mark Hall, in Essex, By the Rev. Dr. Satterthwaite, J. Beckett, Esq. Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, eldest son of Sir J. Beckett, Bart, of Gledhow, near Leeds, and of Somerby Park, Lincolnshire. to Lady Anne Lowther, third daughter of the Earl of Lonsdale, K.G, At Torr Church, Devon, by the Rev. T. C. Cowan, the Rev. T. Clarke, Vicar of Mitcheldever, Hants, to Anne Maria, youngest daughter of the late Hon. J, Grey, At St. George's, Hanover-square, by the Rev. W. Money, G. Money, Esq. of Lincoln's-inn, to Mademoiselle de Bourbel, the only daughter of Marquis de Bourbel, of Monpinçon, in Normandy, In St, Peter's Church, Dublin, by the Archdeacon of Dublin, H. P, Maziere, Esq. to Cornelia, eldest daughter of the late B, Shaw, Esq. Collector of Cork, and niece to R. Shaw, Esq. M.P. In Cork, the Rev. J. Bennet, nephew to the Lord Bishop of Cloyne, to Louisa, eldest daugh. ter of R. Otway, Esq. of Cork, At Mullaghmore, near Dungannon, the Rev. W, At Launceston, by the Rev. C. Lethbridge, P. P. At Walthamstow Church, by the Rev. J. T. J. Parrott, Esq. of Mitcham, to Mrs. Phillips, of Thoyts, daughter of Wm. Thoyts, of South ampstead-house, Reading. B. Whitelock, Esq. of Great Charlotte-street, to Eliza, daughter of Wm. Lane, Esq. of Juddstreet, Brunswick-square. At Brighton, Mr. C. Wright, to Miss P. Ove rington, daughter of the late Mr. W. Overington, Collector of Taxes, at Arundel. At Mary le bone, Mr. Underwood, of Fleet-street, to Mary Easton, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Waugh. At Melford, Suffolk, the Rev. C. E. Stewart, At the Friends' Meeting-house, Limerick, Jas. At Gretna Green, Mr. John Hewetson, of Little Orton, near Carlisle, to Miss Duggan, of Belle Vue. This gallant spark is near seventy years of age, and the fair one (a native of Hibernia) about seventeen. At Clonmel, in Ireland, Capt. G. Browne, of his Majesty's 34th Regiment of Foot, to Harriet Anne, daughter of M. Whish, Esq. Commissioner of Excise. DEATHS. Caroline, At her house in Grosvenor-place, Dowager Countess of Buckinghamshire. Her ladyship was the sister of the late T. Conolly, the wealthy Irish com moner, and daughter of W. Conolly, of Stratton Hall, Staffordshire, by Anne Wentworth, daughter of Thomas, third Earl of Strafford. Her lady ship had three sons, all now dead, and one daughter, viz. Amelia,. the present Viscountess Castlereagh. The late Countess requested in her will that none of her family should wear mourning for her. At Pisa, the Earl of Guildford. His lordship was born Dec. 25, 1761, succeeded his brother in 1802, and married the 19th July 1810, Maria daughter of the late T. Bryatt, of Rudge Hall, Shropshire, Suddenly, Geo. Wm. Evelyn, Earl of Rothes, one of the sixteen Peers of Scotland, and Col. of the Surrey Yeomanry. At Florence Court, in the county of Fermanagh, the Countess of Enniskillen. She was daughter to the Earl of Uxbridge, and sister to the present Marquis of Anglesea. At Topsham, in Devonshire, Capt. Alex. R. Hughes, of the 5th regt, Madras N. I. At Connaught Place, the infant daughter of R. Wigram, Esq. M.P. At Colchester, after a short illness, Lieut.-Col. Norris, of the Engineers, in the Hon. the East-India Company's service, on the Madras establishment. At Finedon, in the county of Northampton, W. S. Dolben, Esq. son of Sir J. E. Dolben, Bart. At his seat in the county of Lancaster, the lady of Sir T. D. Hesketh, Bart. in childbed of a daughter. In Bridge-street, Cambridge, Sir Isaac Pennington, Knt. M.D. Regius Professor of Physic, Senior Fellow of St. John's College, and Senior Physician of Addenbrooke's Hospital. Aged 85, General Carleton, Col. of the 2d Batt. 60th Foot, and great uncle to the present Lord Dorchester. At the George Inn, in Winchester, Henry Bosanquet, Esq. of Clanville Lodge, near Ando-. ver, and late High Sheriff for the county. At Pont de Beauvoisin, on his road to Pisa, for the benefit of a milder climate, Lieut.-Col. H. Gonner, Major in his Majesty's 6th Regiment of Infantry. At Castle Malwood-cottage, in Hants, George Hamilton, youngest son of the Hon. Charles Murray, aged six years. At St. Andrews, the Rev. Dr. Robertson, Professor of Oriental Languages. At Garryhunden, Sir R. Butler, Bart, many years |
