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LATE FROM FRANCE.
. Cg.tBiEiTDK, March 23.
By the ship Bowdi'.ch, arrived at tliis port,
from Hivtc, she editor of the Courier has re
ceived die papers of that city to tits 15th, and
from Paris 10 the ltith ef February, both inclu
sive.
The cotton maiket had uot varied siuce the
previous advices; but sales of rice had been
effected at somewhat lower rotes
I’.ir.is, February 7.
F.xtract of a private letter of a recent date
from Rome:—“The defeat of the Portuguese
rebels has only served to redouble the ardor of
their friends in tile sacred college. At a meet
ing of the Apostolical*, held in this capital the
3.1 January, it was resolved that circulars
should be sent to collect money in all the mon
asteries and catholic congregations, for the
purpose of sending it to Span!. Tims, the A
postoliCi-ls say, ‘I* is not money that is wanting
to the court of Spam; hut arms and resolution
fad Ferdinand VII.’ Ills Holiness has given
orders for the presents to be prepared which it
is customary to give to the Austrian command
ers when tbev pass through Rome. Tho gov-
. . miiiiuiiii iiotiiicauoR ot
their early departure from the kingdom of Na
ples. Too heavy rains, added to the melting
of the immense quantity of snow that Ins late
ly fallen, have caused the Tiber to overflow in
a violent manner* The celebrated church,
called the Rotnndo, lias been inundated. On
the 25tb January, boats were employed in the
streets to carry food to those whom flic water
pi evented leaving their houses. The Neapo-
tans, wo learn, employ every means of express
ing their joy at the departure of tho Austri-
The name of Demetrius Ypsflanti *vas heard
on all sides; the people demanded him as their
. liiel'; be was fetched from his residence and
conducted into the market place; he, however,
did Hot shew much inclination to accept the
honor intended him. It "'as believed, howev
er, that he dissembled, and that the whole af
fair was a preconcerted plan, founded on tho
removal of the members of tho government,
who are gone to Aguira, in order to seize on
tho reins of the government, a conjecture which
the well known connexion between Ypsilanti
and the (Jrivas reuders probable"
The damage susUitltd by the Dutch expedt
citement which is daily increasing.
General Saint Jean, we are assured, calls for
something to be done of a decided character,
for he announces the desertion of a great part
of the regiment of- Arragon. As it respects
this regiment, I can assure you, that when it
lately left Saragosa for Valencia, it was so lit
tle favorable to the absolute government, that
several liberals who were pursued m »b« city,
quitted it with this regiment, which protected
them on their route until their arrival on the
frontiers of Portugal. It is said, besides, that
the Spanish troops sent in pursuit of the de
sorters of the regiment of Arragon, passed the
tier, for B itavia, in thoeafts it encountered, is frontiers, and were repulsed by the Portuguese
said to amount to two nnllions offforins. c„n.o,m,„„ Q lu, e
A private letter of the 31st ult. front Rrussels
eay-—“The Spanish captain, Dun Valdez Al-
g'lt-r, of the guards of kpig Ferdinand, who,
while at Paris, had taken part in flic intrigues
that brought about the Portuguese rebellion,
ami who was exiled from France, has been a-
boat a week at Brussels. It is singular that
this individual, who must be ranked among the
riii'i-coiistitutionulists, frequents here several
Spanish exiles, who are banished from that
country, for their attachment to the constitu
tional cause.
Brers--Is papers state, that tho coronation of
the emperor of Russia as king of Poland was to
take place early in the spring at Warsaw, with
great military pomp and a succession of brilli
ant fetes. Agents of the viceroy ef Egypt at
Lausanne have been endeavoring, it appears,
“l>v the most seducing promises,” to engage in
his service young men who had finished their
time in the French army. Nobody, however,
wo arc told, had been caught by their harangues,
and they hail met every whore with marks of
hatred and contempt.
Paris, Fobruarv 8.
An extraordinary comler"was sent _o(T from
the Austrian embassy ou Monday night, for Vi
enna. The despatches of which ho is the bear
er, aro believed to relate to the antipathy man
ifested towards his excellency, on account of
his refusal to give the Frcucli marshals their
titles.
It seems that fresh representations were
tnado a few weeks ago to the court of Madrid
by the cabinets of St. James, the Tuileries,
and St. Petersburg!! combined. Tho object
of them was to bring Ferdinand to measures
calculated to allay party spirit, and satisfy the
w nts of Spain. ’ These representations are
sn - d to have been repubed with some degree
of haughtiness. This intelligence is rumored
to have arrived at the Russian embassy at Pa
ris two nights ago.
A letter of the 1st instant from Marseilles,
states that on 3d, lord Cochrane was to give a
splendid ball, take leave of his friends, and im
mediately after set out for Greece,
“We arc assured,’’ says the Courier Fran
rob, “that the count do Villele had a confer
ence with M. Bonnet, the reporter of the com
mittee on tho Press Law, in which tho former
declared that if the amendments resolved on by
the committeo were adopted by the charftbcr,
the law would bo withdrawn, seeing that it is
impossible to govern France, if tho system
laid down in the ministerial project be chang
ed in tho slightest degree. A lottcr is also said
to have been written by M. Bonnet to one of
his friends, in which the honorable deputy ex
presses his sense of the difficulties of tho task
he is about to perform. -Placed between the
ministry and public opinion, lie docs not dis
semble that there is little chance of satisfying
every body, and much more of satisfying no
body." *
Paris, February 9.
Tho report of the committee upon the Slave
Trad . Law Project will be made to the cham
ber of Deputies tomorrow.
The three commissioners appointed Don
Pod re, to accompany the Infant Don Miguel
to Brazil, have arrived at Paris. It is not
known whether they will here await his royal
highness, or go to Vienna, or elsewhere to
meet him.
Tho Pope has augmented his Swiss guards
by a hundred men.
A letter from Aviguon represents the state of
the manufactories in that town to be in a most
suffering state, aud the distress among the work-
int-u as extreme.
Wo learn by intelUgencc of the 2d instant,
from Madrid, that several persons suspected of
favoring the insurrection iu tho environs of
Velez Malaga, have been executed in that
pl-.ee.
The Austrian Observer contains the follow
ing article:—“Accounts from Corfu, of the 1st
of January, say, that the grentsst anxiety pre
vails ut Napoli di Romania; the several chiefs
who are in ihat fortress are engaged in contin
ued quarrels, which often end in bloodshed.—
Those who arc tho most embittered against
Cach other aro»Fotatnara, commodore of the ci-
- tidel, and the brothers Griva, from Missnlong*
iii, who command in Fort Patamidi. On the
'13th December, they fired on each other for
Several hours. The unfortunate inhabitants
sought refuse in the churches, and afier the fi
fing ceased, assembled in the market place.—
Notwithstanding the bad harvest last year in
Sweden, no scarcity is fell, even in the pro
vinces that suffered most in consequence of
measures taken by the government to facilitate
(lie importation of foreign corn.
Paris, February 10.
An English cabinet courier passed through
Paris on Wednesday evening, on his way to
Madrid, with Mr. Canning’s reply to the des
patches by which Mr. Lamb announced to him
the second invasion of the Portuguese refugees.
Tint Journal rlcs Debuts says upon this sub-
(t/U.— YTC Hutt; iwuiuii *u Lolrerw <•»«♦ *1*®
English government is far from being satisfied
with the distftis.nl and trial of general Lotiga;
that it demands fuller satisfaction and further
guarantees of the Sjdtoifli government; and
that a contention of a more serious nature than
any that has preceded it is on the point of
breaking oat, and which is calculated to excite
fresh apprehensions relative to the maintenance
ofa good understand.ng botwcon the two pou
rs on ilio one hand, and between the cabinets
of Madrid aud Lisbon on the other."
The .If mortal Ilnrdeltiis mentions a letter
from Ciudad Rodrigo, which states that three
Portuguese generals and a multitude of priests
and monks had arrived in that place. The of
ficers tin | privates, it is adJoJ, have remained
in Portugal to taka advantage of the act of am
nesty and submit to the constitutional govern
ment.
Tiin Academic Society of tho Lower Lo.ro
(Nantes) held a meeting ou the 1st instant,
when it was resolved that a supplicatory ad
dress against the Press Law Project, should
ho sent to tho kin
constitutionalists.
Mr. Lamb, the British minister, is preparing
to depart for Lisbon.
Tho day before yesterday, lie gave his fare
well dinner to the diplomatic corps. He leaves
bis secretary as charge de affaires. He ap
pears to have had but little faith in the protes
tations of the Spanish ministers, and less in
their ability to comply with their promises.
Paris, February 13.
They write, under date of the 27th of Janu
ary, from the frontiers of Poland, that the en
voys of Eugland and Austria were daily ex-
l>e«to<i ot Petersburg, to assist in the confer
ences respeclng the affairs of the east. The
cabinets of Enfl.aiid and Russia are on tho best
terms, atul itlis believed that a second cam-
Tiic Dutch papers contain tho following
notices of the ships of the Java expedition:—
“Tho companies of voluuteers that were ou
board the Wassenxr, and assembled at liar*
lent, have been supplied with new accoutre
ments, etc. We leant that of the crow of 25S
men, only 7 peiished, and of the troops 15 or
16, so that the whole number of the victims of
this misfortune appears to he at most 23. The
agreeable news lias been received at Groningen
that tho Waterloo sailed from the place it was
lying off, Borkum, since the ice has baiUed c*
very attempt to get near it. Several vessels
have since put to sea, to g» in search of her,
and take oat the troops. Wn hear that Sho
ins on board pilots both for tho Weser and
Elbe. Tho king has appointed a commission
to inquire into the causes of the disasters that
occurred to these vessels.’*
An unfortunate occurrence happened at
Rouen a fisw days since.—Mr. Drake, ot Lon
don, about 50 years old, a dealer in snakes, ar
rived in tho morning at a hotel with the inten
tion of setting out in tho afternoon for Paris—
he had three rattlesnakes and several young
crocodiles. Notwithstanding the precaution
he had taken to protect them from the cold,
one of them was found dead; the two othors
wore carried into tho eating room, where the
temperature was milder. Mr. D. stimulating
them with a stick, found one aiono gave signs
oflife, opening the cago to ascertain if it were
dead, tho serpent bit him in the left hand; D.
gave a shriek, without lotting it go, he then
placed it iu the cage, where it gave him ano
ther bite in tho hand. He sent for a physician,
and in the mcau while rubbed his hand with
which was in the yard. Two minutes af
ter the accident he made a ligature on the arm
Ten minutes after the accident, the doctor ar
rived; he cauterised the wounds with hot iron,
and gave Mr. D. olive oil internally. At 11
in the morning ho was better, but at 8 in the
evening ho died.
A rabbit was bitten by one of the serpents,
and died in a few minutes.
Lisbon, 25M January.—(Private Corres
pondence.)—A courier extraordinary arrived
yesterday from Madrid to the Spanish embas
sy. The count de Casa Flores leaves here,
and his secretary fills the office of charge do
affaires. Tho force of the Spanish troops as*
scmblcd on the frontiers of Portugal, amounts
to 9061 Infantry, and 1242 cavalry* total 1090§
—of which 2441 infantry, and 367 cavalry,
are under the orders of adjutant general Radii
—another brigade of 3364 infantry, and 875
cavalry, are under the orders of adjutant gen
eral Sesti—also another brigado of 3856 infan
try, arc under the orders of adjutant general
Unidl.
To these troops must also bo added those
which compose the army of observation, which
aro at present collected in the villages of Trux-
illo and Talcvcirn, under the orders of lieuten
ant general Sarsfield.
Such an assemblage of forces on the part of
the Spanish cabinet, will necessarily cause a
corresponding concentration of Anglo Portu
guese troops ou the frontiers of Portugal.
Madrid, 29<A January,—Three couriers
extraordinary, arrived yesterday, one after the
other, to the miuister of war. One came from
Gallicia, and had been despatched by the gen
eral Egui, the other two came from Estrama
dura, and have been sent from Vulontia by
tho general Saint Jean—and contrary to cus*
tom, the greatest silence has been assumed re*
spooling tho despatches of these couriers.—
General Eguia has announced, it is said, a
continuation of partial disturbance among bis
troops, and moreover a great ferment among
tho liberals, particularly in that part of Galli.
cia, in the neighborhood of Ferrul, Corrognc,
and Vigo, in to much that the general is appre
hensive that those villages will commit some
overt act in favor of tne constitution, unless
sufficient garrisons are kept up to check the ex-
paign against lersia will not take place. Hos
tilities betweej the two empires have been sus
pended on acount of the inclement seasons,
aud the Rus^aii troops which were on the
march to the /rentiers of Persia have becu or
dered to halt.
Tiie neds from Greece is not favorable.—
The friends of the Greeks flatter themselves
that the Christian powers arc forming plans
for their emancipation; but others, better ad
vised, fear that the nego nations have no other
end in view, tlwn to place Greece under the
dominion of some such hospodar, as prince
Milosch. However, according to letters of
lOih January, from Constantinople, the last
campaign was rather favorable to Greece.—
AH Lividia, as jyell as tho east and west part
of Greece, were in a state of insurrection: the
people from Colo to Salona bad taken up arms.
The government also was reorganized on the
10th November, at Aigina; on the 15th, the re
venue of the country had been established, and
on the 17tli, measures had been adopted for the
suppression of piracy. The government had
also declared the blockado of the island of Ne-
gropont, and intended to adopt the same with
respect to Candia. Lord Cochrane was ex
pected in the Archipelago.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
New York, March 23.
By the packet ship Janies Cropper, captain
Graham, from Liverpool, English papers to
17th February, and by the ship Cadmus, cap
tain AUyn, Ire in Havre, Paris journals to the
16th February, have been received.
The corn question has been again postpon
ed, to the -nth of February, in consideration
of Mr. Canning’s illness, which was so far re
moved as to leave little doubt that on that day
the right honorable gentleman would be able to
bring the question forward. It is confidently
anticipated, that sir F. Burdett’s motion respect
ing the catholics will be also postponed, should
Mr. Canning not be so fur recovered as td re
sume his seat before the day fixed for its dis
cussion.
Information had been received from Brigh
ton, that Mr. Canning was recovering from his
severe illness. From the following remarks
upon this intelligence in the Courier, the read
er can judge of die space which this distinguish
ed statesman fills in the eye of the British pub
lic at this moment:—
“If this distinguished statesman could know
the absolute dismay which was inspired by the
supposed alarming character of his illness, ho
would understand how all classes of his coun
trymen appreciate him. It was not the ordi
nary anxiety which is naturally felt for the
health of an eminent public man; but it was
the mingled feeling of fear, lest we sltoukl sus
tain an irreparable loss, and of anticipated sor
row, for the premature extinction of such a
master-mind, that pervaded every bosom. At
no period in the history of this country, since
the death of Mr. Pitt, has there been a conjunc
ture of affairs pregnant witli consequences of
greater magnitude and complexity, both abroad
and at home, than at the present moment;
and, as in the case of Pitt, their issues, at least
of the former, are in tho hands of one man.—
This is the conviction of the country; and
hence the deep anxiety which the country must
feel, at the most distant prospect of such a ca
lamity os the one we have glanced at. Tho
announcement, consequently, which we made
on Saturday, and which wo rejoice in being a-
blc to repeat today, will be received with sin
cere pleasure throughout the empire."
It is said that sir Walter Scott will receive
a large pecuniary augmentation from die pub
lishers, in consequence of tho “Life of Napo
leon." extending to eight volumes. It is doubt
ed whothcr the work will be published in Lon
don, in less than three months from the present
time.
The late William Gifford left a fortune of
twenty-five thousand pounds sterliug^accumu-
lated as editor of the Quarterly Review,'and as
the writer of political essays.
It is said to bo the intention of the British
admiralty, to build six steam ships of 4he larg
est size, capable of carrying one hundred car-
ronade guns of increased calibre, and to be
propelled by two engines of two hundred horse
power each. „ '
The Liverpool Chronicle of the 17th ult, says:
Letters from Madrid received in London, by
the French mail on Thursday, aro to the 2d
inst. and the political intelligence which they
contain is as usual, very scanty. One tetter,
however says tho Gloue, mentions that Mr.
Lamb has sent severnlVsry unpleasant remon
strances as to tho reception of the Portuguese
in tho Spanish territory, of the leaders, and that
the relations of the two countries appear still
unsatisfactory. It was believed in Madrid,
guuse Constitutional army hud found it necessa
ry to fall back; and that several new bands ofin-
surgeutshad appeared in the south, but in small
parties; lint from the manner in which all these
details are given, we think, they are not believ
ed even in Madrid.
Late accounts from Malta, received at Liv
erpool, 16th February, slide that peace had
b*.n ronelu/tpd between Spain and Algiers.
Gen. Morales, well known as the command
er of the Spauish forces in South America, a*
gainst tho patriots, has been appointed Cap
tain-General of the Canaries, and was to em
bark from Cadiz, with 1000 or 1200 troops to
take possession of liis new command.
There have been serious disturbances in
Carlisle, arising from the distress of the manu
facturing population, and the Military had been
called out. •
k is reported that Sir Humphrey Davy, will
soon # resign his seat as President of the Royal
Society.
Commodore Hamilton boarded and took a
piratical corvette at Hydra, cut out several
vessels which had been captured; and obtained
the restoration of three English cargoes.
Greece.—The news in the French papers
and which must be received with caution, is
favorable to tho Greeks and there is no doubt,
froth alt the accounts, that Karatskak.it gam
ed a considerable advantage in western Greece,
having starved and slaughtered a force of 2,000
Turks, who had suffered themselves to be
blockaded in a village. The Greeks are re
presented as wholly defficient in discipline, and
in leaders of spirit, yet the enemy suffers great
losses, and no where produces quiet submission.
Liverpool, February 16.
Parliament.—The ministers are likely to
have warm work of it this session—called on
loudly by the people to reduce the price of
coru, and almost menaced by the great and in
fluential owners of the soil, who have an inter
est in keeping up the price of bread and bo-^ r
roughs. Then there is the ticklish question of %9 Galigni's Messenger.
the catholic claims, which must be disposed of
one way or other, or ministers will subject
themselves, x'ery justly to the reproach of tam
pering with a matter of. vital importance to the
safety and Well being of the empire.
They will have also to meet and answer the
remonstrance of the shipowners, who, after
complimenting Mr. Huskisson with a superb
service of plate, for bis advocacy of free trade,
now call upon that minister to retrace his steps,
and put matters in statu quo.
The assessed taxes, the game laws, the im
pressment of seamen, the Irish emigration, and
the tithe question, with many other subjects of
great magnitude, will try the patience of the
parliament and of the people, and conspire to
givo unusual interest to the present session.
Tho important subject of impressment of
seamen was, we find, incidentally introduced
on Tuesday evening, when the report of the
committee of supply on the navy estimates was
produced.
London, February l6. t
Accounts hive been received,' this morning,
from Spain, through Paris, by which we learn
that a small body of Portuguese rebels had
marched through Tras-os-Montcs upon Opor
to, aud were at no very great distance from that
city on the 30th ult. It appears, they took
advantage of count Villa Flor, being employ
ed in covering Beira, to make this unexpected
movement. Letters from OpOrto, however,
of as late a date os the 4th instant mention,
that count Villa Flor had immediately moved
down to cover the city, and had reinforced the
garrison, so that all apprehensions as to the ul-
tiniatc operations of the rebels had ceased.
The accounts from Brighton, this morning,
state that Mr. Canning, though not free from
phin, was gradually advancing towards recov-
cry, '/
(by the CADMUS.)
The Journal du Commerce, of February 16,
contains the following paiagraph: “One of tho
journals of today says, that in the council held
last Tuesday, the question was agitated wheth
er the chambers should bo transferred to Tours,
Blois or Bruges, in order to removo it from the
influence of the capital; but tho motion was
adjourned, as well as that for the' creation of
new peers. It adds, that the regiments of the
guards in garrison at Rouen, Orleans, Com-
peigne, &c. have received orders to approach
the capital. , The Etoile (a ministerial paper)
denies the first part of these statements, but
takes no notice of the other."
Of news, these papers are unusually barren.
The Constitutioncl says, a great number of
the electors of Paris, greatly alarmed by a suc
cession of rainisterialacts and projects which
threaten to deprive them of the rights guaran
teed to them by the charter, are at this mo-,
ment signing a petition to the king.
The Russian ambassador had issued cards of
invitation to the number of eight hundred or
nine hundred, for a grand ball to be given on
22d of February. The marshals of France
aro all addressed fay their titles and not by
their names, os was the case when invited by
the Austrian ambassador.
Tho prince royal of Denmark and suite, ar
rived at Marseilles, on tho 6th February, and
departed on the 9th for Toulon.
M. Pupicr, a missionary to the East Indies,
and a professor of tho Chinese seminary at Pu-
lopinang, is dead.
Discoveries in Egypt.—It is at length pla
ced beyond a doubt that the Nile of which
Bruce conceived he had discovered the source
in Abyssinia, and which .the Portuguese had
seen and described in the sixteenth century, is
only a tributary stream flowing into the true
Nile, of which tho real sourco is much nearer
to the equator. For this information wo are
indebted to M. Cnlliaud, a French Traveller,
who accompanied the predatory expedition of
the two sons, Ishmacl and Ibrahim, of tho Pa
cha of Egypt, into Nubia, and who, in conjunc
tion with M. Lators, has made known a new
region in tho exterior of Africa, more than 500
miles in length, and extending to the tenth de
gree of Northern latitude. This gentleman
has likewise determined the position of the city
of Meroe, of which he found the ruins in the
Blue River,) precisely in the spot where ly I
the ' 1
Anvillc bad placed them upon the authority
ancient authors. A venues of sphynxes and !1
lions, propylea and temples in the Egytia,
style, forests of pyramids, a vast inclosure fo rc ,
cd witli unbaked bricks, seemed to pour out it
this place tire existence of a large capital, ajj
may serve to to elucidate tho much agitated', U
still undecided question—“Whether civilij,'
tlons followed the course of the Nile from Etk.
opia to Esypt, or whether it ascended from L
gypt, to Nubial"
Extract of a letter from Italyr— <f Wlii] C ; , j
Rimini and Pesaro, I heard some curious Jtj.1
ries concerning an individual whom the elur I
ter of incidents has linked with British histori!
You will immediately rccal to mind the n^jj
of Bergami. This famous personage is a verrl
conspicuous character on the Eastern coast fll
tho Adriatic. Will you believe that, besides I
an estate at Ravenna, tho splendid villa occa.|
pied by the late Queen Caroline, and a placeasl
Pesaro, he has purchased no less titan twelve I
farms, jn the neighborhood of the last mention.I
cd place? M. Bergami, or rather Baron Ber. I
garni, as he styles himself, passes most of bill
time in shooting, and sallies forth, armed at all
points, accompanied by four or five congenial
spirits, the whole having the appearance of ^9
mniijr bnmwrvf Venice. ‘ Ho kda
repugnance to seeing English travellers, anjf
on a recent occasion, absolutely refused to a!. I
low the villa to bo shown to an English familyJ
which presented itself at the gate for that pur.f
pose. The good people of Pesaro are quit, I
at a loss to conceive how the Baron (who is fl.1
so a Nnpolitan Count, by purchase,) could haul
accumulated so much wealth, though they can]
account very easily for his possessing such a I
profusion of plate and jewels. It is needless to]
say that this person is not associated with by
ny of tho gentry or nobility; indeed, he ap.1
pears to have found his level, and to bo univc;.]
sally regarded as a mere vulgar sensualist.”-
that the rebels were in a great force on the Delta, formed by the Babr-el-Abricl (the
northern and eastern frontier; that the Portu-! White River,) and the Cahr-cl-Axraq (the
From the National fnletligeneer, 81st uU.
FROM THE SOUTH SEA.
17. S. Sloop of. War Ptacoeh.)
Passaeta, Otnheiti, Augnst 18,1828, \
By my several letters from Lima and Guay.l
aquil, you w are informed of our contemplated]
cruize among the South Sea Islands, for the]
protection of our extensive whale fishery is]
this t emote quarter of the globe. Accordingly,!
on the 27th of June we sailed from Guayaquil,!
and ou the 30th took our departure from St. £.[
lora, (an Island at the entrance of the bay):
on the 4tb of July anchored in Essex hay,]
Charles’ Island, on the Galiapagos’, and t
correctly described by Commodore Porter, isl
his Journal, that nothing is left for the anxioat
voyager who follows him. Novelty, and a de
sire to get a stock of tortoises, prompted ut i
anchor at this Island, both ofwhicbobjectsb
ing fully accomplished in four days (having t
ken upwards of 300 terrapins on bon'd) on i
8th, we put to sea,.shaping a course for W«
ington Groiipe '(or Marquess Islands) situates
in 140 deg. West longitude, and about 9 del
of South latitude; and, on the 22d aucho.cd c
Massachusetts Bay, Madison Island, basin;
performed the passage in less than 15 days,<lu'
ring which time the ship actually ran over three]
thousand two hundred miles, averaging more
than 200 miles per day, in a low South lati*!
tude, and tinder circumstances not the must]
favoi able for her best sailing. At Massadiu*]
setts Bay we remained eight days, during whid
time the ship was visited by almost the \vho!e|
population of that part of tho Island. Tbtir|
surprise and admiration appeared insatiab!c:|
nor was it until long after tho ship was ua’crp
way, that the King, and many of his subject,
took their final leave of tho Peacock.' There
were numerous applications among the your.gl
men to accompany us to America, two of whoal
wo now have on board, and may probabty.r
gratify you with a sight of them.
Massachusetts Bay, you will remember, i
the port Commodore Porter occupied with the I
Essex, and her prizes, during the late war, h:i|
transactions thereat comprising several cbaptertl
of his very interesting and useful Journal. I'l
is, therefore, uatural to supposo, that evory A‘l
merican naval officer must be highly gratified I
in reviewing a scene rendered conspicuout ul
history, by tho unwearied gallantry and «»•!
summato skill of a brother officer. The t^'l
parts of Fort Madison aro still visible, and the|
wall that encompassed Porter’s camp remaut-'.l
though in a dilapidated state; but thej
name of Porter will live in the recollection <
the Nooahcevian, as long as memory scrv^J
them. It was, indeed, a most gratifying “J
utnpli, to hear these uncivilized people cs Ef cs '|
sing their grateful acknowledgements for rot'l
ter’s kindness towards them, and thotnaoyjra
quirics made for him, all wishing to know wV|
lie did uot go back, and if ho does not inre®
to visit them again. But of Noonhccvab,
have neither time nor space to say more at |
sent; therefore, will change the scone. ,■
On the 1st instant, we left Nooaheevah,a®|
on steering a little out of tho track of the
cumnavigators, in the hope of making* 0 ^
now discoveries, on tho morning of tho fotf
day out unexpectedly made an Island,
not being on any of our charts, we supp
to be a discovery. The natives, however, a
poared on tho beach, and invited us to
We sent a boat to communicato with tM >
and found them perfectly friendly, an “
S osed to traffic their pearls and sholls for £0
lanufacturcs; but, ds wo aro not traderti :v|
left them in possession of their riches. *
island is called by tho inhabitants
had been before visited by an American
English ship. _ .,
On the morning of tho 7th, the high l: ’
Otaheiti, was visible from the deck,
the afternoon, we took a a pilot off P 01 ? ^
nus, and the next day anchored in Matav|»
a placo celebrated in tho voyages of “ a
Cook, Sic. &c. Matavia is now one
regular missionary stations of Tahiti, of v
there are nine at present on this island-
after anchoring, the Rev. Mr. Wilh° D >
has charge of the Matavia district, accomp
cd by two ot tho principal cniois* caiuw ,
to wulcomo our arrival, which they had co ]