Star. — London, England, 1815-12-16 00:00:00

rma AR Aft ‘1MM.1••..,•6 D Part of the 16th Regiment of Light Dragoons handed at Dover yesterday morning from Calais s-- :he remainder of the regiment gre expected to arrive to-day. Yesterday 190 men and 400 horses of the 23d Light Dragoons arrived in MAidstone from Canter• 1, 11: y, on their route from France for Dorchester, uLeze the whole regiment is expected to Thenible t he remainder tirrived from France at Hytho on 'Wednesday. None of the Infantry Regiments had anived at talais on Thursday, but they were daily expected. Thursday the depot of the,2d R. N. B. Dragoons aiiived at Chnterbuyy, to wait the arrival of the regi vent from France, and where it is to he st,:',-)ned Three Battalions ordered to return home, 1i lye been countermanded, and are to remain in Flanders for the present in eiltigeofitOres: In order to afford accommodation to the tenors in their progress through Canterbury front France, the 1,1 4 ht Cavalry Depot has been temporarily_ broken up, the 11th Regiment having removed to Hythe, and the 12th to Brabourne Lees. The 23d has also marched for Touhritige, en its route for Dorchester. The barracks and forts along the coast are, it is said, to be c3mpletely filled by the troops returning from Fraoce=a wise precaution, as, in the event of any unfavourable result from the yet unsettled state of France, a British army of 30,000 men mild in a few hours be transported to the opposite shore. The 66th and 53d are the regiments destined to remain .it St. Helena.' The sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards. lately employed in quelling the disturbances at Newcastle and Sunderland, is under orders for Ireland. The Rossbire Militia, under the command of Major GUN MUNRO, marched into Belfast en the Bth inst. horn Tain, North Britain, a distance of upwards of 8%) miles. RAN:SCATS, Drc. 15.—Sailed last evening for Ire land, tl:e Charles Transport (D.E.), with about 116 ;A the 2d Garrison Battali , n: the wind having come round westerly to-day, is much against them. Ar -is. the _ onus; Trans. r k.cd this morning, 'min C I ; pa rt (GAL), with a detachment of the 16th Light Dragoons, intended for Ireland ; but the wind beim., centrary, it is supposed the Agent (Captain RAINS) will have them landed. MILITkRY COLLEGE. The half-yearly examination at the Royal Military College took place on Weonesday last, at Sandhurst, before a Committee of the. Commissioners, composed et Lis Royal Highness the Duke of KENT, Earl Har court, Sir David Dundas, Lieutenatit-General Sir N . lv‘rr, Lieutenant-General Sir H. Oakes, Lieut - General Sir A. dope, the Governor, Vlajor-Genei al Sir J. W. Gerd Colonel Butler, the Lieutenant-Go vern ;r, and Colokel Howard Douglas. The fol. luwin+4 Cadets were examineil. viz. G. A. hl,Der mots, V. Munro, H Bmoke, \V. Fuller, 'l', Millar, R. Szott. E: Otter, W. H. Fi,ke, J. Poyntx,.R. Ci, yew, J. Cates, C. L. Boileau, L). Roi:inson, C. Dou glas, C. A. Wrottesli . , 4. D. Maclean, A. Murray, D. Stewart iJ. Hari icon, M. P. ichardon, G. W son. A. Maclareth, lt. Lynham. The examination related to Mathematics, Fortification, Histoey, Geo paphy, the French and German Languages, &c. in 1 which the young Gentlemen appciteett to gi much satisfaction, and appropriate rew :ids were 6 - stowed on such 3; had made the greatest proficievcy. The Royal Duke and his party were received at the College with the honours due to their rank. GIBRALTAR. l'he following highly gratifying Address was atnted to Major-Ceneral lirnonnumarov on leavoi t ., Gibraltar, by the Cattio:ic Body : " The Moserah4 Don Isodriro Duminruet, Apnivolic Vicar General, and sole Chief of the Cathac t..:. '. in rds garrison, deputed by Lis Holiness Plus the Seventh, by this respectful manner, and as the organ of this congrega approaches the re spec able pi r, en of Alajor-Getaeral lin ling Vi' it' dr itigton, s eerind in commard ii: this ktsrrs on, to express the deep st.rrow which they feel at his dtj artne frtro it, and to convey to hint their sincere and canthd testitetny of the d,istinguislied arepreciatiOn, Late, ni and vent-ration, which will be ever enter aiiwo for him by tht get rle or this town, !ot the protec ion which he has indisais must ely aft rde. toll classes. subjtc:i or 1111. Britannic Majes:y, whom Con preserve, of the iralous pursuastuta who resi . 4 ui this place. •• lu eliect, the name of Major-rgeneral Widdrington will ever e cited with the greatest .honour and the most tenth-r ,enti naits; by the orphan., of whom, by his kindness, be becaine e father; iry the helpless widows, whose sorrows he they& • ; and by alt classes of afflicted, to whom he was or cop..). tar on and relict, particularly whets be walked she streets aril vi. •ei .! the habitatioes during the last Epidemic with which Plunk nrxce visitini this town ; ceinmerce of it, to whose pros ; troy 1w contranitt it by ;A t he means within his search; they ie if all 01.4 the itioess loi a pron. ctor so generally known as the t., ~J,,f bora, &tad the ettemy of th; Lad and p • • 's he Vicar Gruen 1 , isi espresting these sentiments, on which ht. ears rot nattier enlarge, tearttil of wout.dinit the auxlesty and th 1 etc. y of General Wid.trolgton, he cannot do lest on his pal t crier General ‘Viddrington Ids thanks for the part vshie.it Le took with las .F.sorilincy the Lientenant.Governor, • to hi latitline ? ha order ti.at be night sanction the opening ▪ the (hutch's t , otple, in which the Catholics had the means of sssissibiing to War., thew solemn thanksgiving s to Goo, and • its of grace; for his infinite clemency, its having resumed and iossipate t the horrors, and ecidng to afflict this town.witb me stemma of List year. '1 ho Vicar, sir, finally; is the rebigious efEtis of bit initially, will address at all ttnirs to the High and Loafs bit vows and weak prayers for the health -.• fiajor•Gencrid Whieringtoh and his haliiiy.altd for their My r., t..s and prosperity, In whftever sit statitm Pao vtaim ez nisy be acted to plate hod and them in. is hit your moot obedient bromide servant, " Gibraltar, Nut. 4, 1815. 'REPLY. •6 15:1'. 1 V ii.I . IINCULX, ArOhtUJIC LC:I General." " Gibraltar, 6th Nov. 1815. liire;.arr Piave received the hoticus of your letter of r Oct. si.d. t,, !y gmillying to nay feelings, tl:at In Übe Sea , , :'s a.f 4/hit:ton., 411 , 1 in the discharge of the ditties of humanity, c..; duct has nitt with approbation cat to renisetable a titriA.4 - :ion a- the t !attliolics of Gißraltar, who hate olso telt the *abr., tis, of oi!.tir., in th: dawn that have surrossidsd all, and N.: y oat self I shall always entertain the greatest esteem Ind ventrati.oa ; .01.1 with every good wi.h for your health and .aritress, and the prtuiperiiy of the Cathol cts of your tongs:gas Itr4l, 1 Lye , he I:4)mm:- to be t .v . ith profound respect, ' Yon most obedient humble servant, L. Tin Li no WionßlNG•ror, M. Gen. T . te R ev. Don Worts Duntingues, kostolic Vivr General, &c. Bc.. Ice. Gibraltar." A h w :lays ago, as the Hon. Colonel WINGFIELD hTltA'ljuftJ, wia idin", his horse suddenly piunged :::.d threw him off, whereby his t!sish was uniortu. /lately broken. About two years since this Gentle- I rian raperienced a similar accident, and on the same P.g, him wg,are happy to lcaru be is osjag MUTINtERS OF TIM Bomar. The following particulars respecting the descendant s of the survivors of these men (copied from the ever. ter& Review) cannot fail to be perused with great in. terest by all our Readers It is well known that in the ypat 1789, his Ma jesty's armed vessel the Bounty, while employed in Iconveying the bread.fruit,tree from Otaheite to the West Indibs, was run away by her men, and the Captain and some of his officers put on board a boat, which after a passage of 1.200 leagues, providentially arrived at 1 Dutch settlement on the island of Tisnor. The mutineers, twenty.five in number. were sup posed, from some expressions which escaped them w..en the launch was turned adrift, to have made sail towards Otaheite. As soon as this circumstance was known to the Admiralty, Captain Edwards was or. dered to proceed in the Pandora to that island, and entfoavour to discover anti bring to England the Bounty, with such of the crew as he might be able to secure. On his arrival in March, 1791, at tavai-bay, in Otaheite, tour of the mutineers Came voluntarily on board the Pandora to surrender them selves ; and from information given by them, ten others (the whole number alive upon the island) were, in the course of a few days, taken; and, with the exception of four, who perished in the wreck of the Pandora, near Endeavour Straight, conveyed to England for trial before a Court•martial, which ad judged six of them to suffer death, and acquitted the other futin From the accounts given by these men, as well as from some documents that were preserved, it ap peared that as soon as Lieutenant Bligh bad been driven from the ship, the twenty-five mutineers pro. ceeded with her to Toobouai, where they proposed to settle ; but the place being found to hold net little encouragement, they returned to Otaheite, and hav ing there laid in a large supply of stock, they once more took their departure fur Toobouai, carrying with t h em eight men, nine women, and seven boys, natives of o:alteite. They commenced, on their second aerial, the building of a fort, but by divisions among them selves, and quarrels with the natives, the design was abandoned. Christian, the leader, also very arm discovered that his authority over his accomilices was at an end ; he therefore proposed that they should return to Otaheite ; Chat as many as chose it should be put on shore at that island, and that tne rest should proceed in the ship to any other place they might think proper. Accordingly they once more put to sea, and reached Matavai on the 1 0th September, 1789. Here sixteen of the twenty-five desired to be land ed. fourteen of whom, as already mentioned, tA tare taken on board the Pandora ; of the other two, as reported by Coleman (the first who surrendered him-; self to Captain Edwards), one had been made a Ctiiet, killed his companion, and was shortly after wards murdered himself by the natives. Christian, with the remaining eight of the muti.! neers, having taken on board several cf the natives of Otah:ite, the greater part won:ca, put to sea on the night between the :list and 22. ii Sep:enther, lisf i t;l in :he morning the ship was discovered from Pointl Venus, steering in a north-westerly direction; and here terminate the am unts given by the mutineers who welt; either taken or surrendered themselves at M..tavai-bay. They stated, however, that Christian, on the tiight tit hit; departure ? was heard to declare, tn.tt lie should seek for some uninhabited island, a.id having established his party, break up the ship ; but . all endeavours of Captain Edwards to gain inttlli. gene* either of the ship or tier crew at any of toe nu merous islands visited by ilia Pandora, failed. From this period, no information respecting Chris :ian or his companions reached g nglod for twenty years ; when, about the beginning of the.yeav 1009. Sir ..idney Smith, then p onunaader v in-Chief on the Brazil station. transmitted to the Admiralty a paper, which he bad received from Lieutenant Fetzmautice, purporting to be an Is gums from the log-book of Captain }Wager, of the American ship 'ropily," and dated as Valpar.iiso ? 10th October, 180 b." About the roonneneemmt of .the present year, Rear-Admit-1i J - L'thain, when cruizing off New Lon don, received a letter addiessvd to the Lords of the Adu;f:.. I ky, of which the following is a copy. toge ther with the azimuth compass, to which it refers: " Nantucket, March I, 1513. "My Loeb.— The remarkable eircumstauce which took place on my last voya:c to the Pacific Ocean, will, 1 trust, plead my apology for addressing your Lordships at thi4 time. In February, !.sOs, I touched at Pitcairn% Wend t iu lar. 2:42. S. 10ng.130.W. from Greenwich. My princ•pal object my, to peocure seal skins fur the Chum market ; and from the accouut Liven of the islaad in exenaal Carteret's sops's., I suppin.ed It seal uninhabited; but, on approachies the shore in toy boat, I was met by three young rum 4n a double cantle. with a present, cousisting of some fruit and a hog. l'hey sear to me In the Enghsh language, and in (mined me that they were born on the island, and their father was sn Englishman, who had sailed with Captain thigh. After ilis:l,mitat; with them a short time, I leaded with them, and !amid an Englishman} of the came of Alexander smith, who inflamed me that he pas one of the Bounty's crew, and that alter putting Captain Bligh in the boat, with half the ;hip's company, they returned to Otaheite, where part if their crew chose to tally, bait Mr. Christian, with eight others, in cluding himself, preArred goiog to a more remote place; ands after making a abort stay at Otahehe, where they ,tuoit wives and Six men eurvants, they proceeded to Pitcairn's Island. where they destroyed the ship, after taking every thing out of her which thsy thuught would be useful to them. About six years after they lauded at this place, their servants attacked and killed all the English, exceptil the informant, and he was severely %melded. the same night, the Otaheitan widows arose and murdered all their countrymen, leaving Smith with the widows and children, where he had resided ever since without being re slued. " I remained bat a short time on the island, and on leaving Smith presented me a time-piece, and an azimuth compass, which he told me belonged to the Bounty. The time-keeper was taken Irons me by the Governor of the island of Juan Fernan dez; after I had it in my pensession abut six weeks. The com pass I put in repair cu board my ship, and made use of it on my liontess and pass age, : is.ce which a new card has been put to it by an instranteni-ntaker in Boston. I now forward It to your Lord ships, thinking there will be a kind of satisfaction in receiving it, mete! ) Ginn the extraordinary circumstances attending it. (ti g ited) " MA VIILW f01.9a11." Nearly ahnli,t thu same time, a further account of these interestirtA people was received Innis Vice Ad miral Dixoll, in a letter addressed to him by Six Thomas Staines, of hi. Majesty's ship BltyrON, of which .the folluwin„s* is; copy : " 11 ' riton Valparaiso, .Oct. IS, 1814. " SIR—I hare the honour to inform you, that on my passne from the !Mar quesas Wands to this port, on the morning of the 17th of ti.plember, I &II in with an island where none is laid down in the Admiralty, or other charts, according to the several chronometers of the Briton and '18895. I therefere hove to, until day-light, and then closed to ascertain whether It was las. 1 hired, Wilda 1 soon dief,ovetcd k to be, wad to toy Feat asool,o- • meat, fosnd that every Individual on the faladd (40 in maker), I . spoke very good English. They proved to to the dewendants of the deluded crew of the Bounty, whi c h, frbm Otaheite. pro ceeded to the above-mentioned island, where the ship was burnt. " Chriselan appeared to have been the leader and the sole cause of the mutiny la that ship. A venerable old man t named John Adams! is the entY surviving Englishman of those who last qnitted (Width in he;, and whose exemplary conduct arid fatherly caa-roof the whole little colony, could not but command admiration. The pines manner in which all these born in the island have been reared, the correct senie of religion which has beet' iit•tilled into their young minds by this old man, has eiven him the pre.enainence over the whole of them, to whom they Iciok up as the father of Ike whole and one family. " .1 son of Christietes was the first born on the island, now about 25 years of age (tinned Thursday October Christian); the elder Chrbitian fella sacrifice to the jealousy of an o;aheitan man, within three ec four years after their arrival on the island. They were accompanied thithir by six Otaheitan men and twelve women ; the former were all swept away by desperate contentions betwien them and the Englishmen, and aye cf the latter have died at different periods, leaving at present only one man and several women of the original settlers. " Time island must undoubtedly be that called Pitcairn's, al though erroneously Laid down in the charts. We had the meri dian sun close to it, which gave us 25 deg. 4 ndn S. lat. and 130 deg. 25 min. W. lone. by chronometers of the Briton and Tagus. " It is abundant in yams, plantains, hogs, goats, and fowls, but affords no shelter tor a ship or vessel of any desaiption ; nei ther coul 1 a ship water there without great cLificulty. " I cannot refrain from offering my opinion that it Is well worthy the attention of our laudable religious societies, particu larly that for Propagating the Christian Religion, the whole of the inhabitants speaking the Otakeitan tongue as well as English. 4 ' During the whole of the time they have been on the island, only one ship has ever eommunicered with them, which took place about six years since , by an American ship alled the To paz, of Boston, ?slayhew Fulcer, Master. " 'the island is cotuu:vely iron-hound with roelty shores, and landing in boats, at times difficult, :(though safe to appro..ch within a short distance in a ship. (Aped) " T S fASN LS. " • There was tio such name in t:v Bounty's el.:Ay; he must have assumed it in lien cf his real name, Ales aridor Smith. We have been favoured with some further piirticu lars of this singular suiety, witidr, we doubt not, will interest tint- Readers as much as they have our selves. As the real position of the island was asct.r. taiited to be su fur distant from that in which it is osnally laid down is the charts, and a:, the Captains of the Briton and Tagus seem to have stilrconsdered it as uninhabited, they were no: a little surprised, on approaching its shores, to behold plantations regu larly laid cct, and huts or houses more neatly con structed than tho , :e oa die Marquesas Island:, When about two miles from the shore, same natives were observed blinginlT down their canoes on their thoul ders, dashing ihrongh a heavy surf, and pleldling off to the ships ; but their astonishment was unbounded on healing one of them, on approaching the ship, out in the En?,lish laril,:trage, 44 Won't you heave us a rope, now ?" .• _ _ The first man who got on board ahe B:iton soon preeed sv!s) they wsre. llis name, he said, was 'lsliatsdas Octsber Christian, the first-born on the island. fie was then absut five-and twenty years of tine, and is descrif,ed as a tine young man, about six feet high, his hair deep black, his countenance open And interesting, of a brownish cast, but free from that mixture of a reddish tint which prevails on itlands ; his only dress was a piece of cleth, ruond his loins, and a straw hat, ornamented with the black feathens of the domestic fowl. 44 With a gnat s:eue of gu(J bunions." says Captsin Pipon, l " ti were glad to tract in his benevolent counte nance all the featsses rf ; . n honest English face."- 4 , 1 must confess," he Loaa;hacs, " I could not sur vey this interesting person without feelings ef tender ness and cnnipaiorbi." His companion was named George Young, a tine youth of seventeen or eighteen yeses of age . if the astonishment or the Captains was great on hearing their first salutation in English, their sur prise and interest wete not a little increased on Sir Thomas Staines taking the youths below, and set ting before them something to eat, when one of them rose up, and placing his hands together in a posture of devetiqn, distinctly repeated, and in a pleasing tone and manner...." For what we are going to re ceive, the Lorna make us truly thankful." Taus , expressed great surprise on seeinis a cow on board the Briton, and were: in denbt whether the was 3 Teat goat or a horned sow. 'The two Captains of his Majesty's ships accompa nied these young insit on slime. With some diffi culty, and a good wetting, and with the assistance of their conductors, they accomplished a landing through the surf, and wese soca after met by John Adams, a man between fifty and silty years of age, who conducted them to his house. His wife accom panied hint, is very old lady, blind with age. He was at tirst alarmed, lest the visit was to apprehend him. Itit on being told that they were perfectly ips norant nf his existence, ,he was relieved from his anxiety. Being once assured that this visit was of a peaceible nature, it is impossible to describe the joy these poor ptople manifes:ed on sceiv those %shorn they were pleased to considsr as their countr; . nisn. Yams, cocoa-nuts, and other fruits, with line fresh eggs, were laid before them; and the (Id man would have killed and dressed a hog for his visitors, but time would nut allow them to partake of his intended feast. This interesting new colony, it seemed, now c;;n. sisted of about torty-six persons, mostly grown up young people . , besides a numbe r of ilifara::. The young men, all born on the island, were very atbie tic, and of the finest forms—their countenances open and pleasing, indicating much benevolence argil good; ness of heart ; but the young women were objects of particular admiration, tall, robust, and beautifully formed, their faces beaming with smiles and unturned good humonr,*but wearing a degree of modesty and' bashfulness that would do honour to the most vir tuous nation on earth ; their teeth, like ivory, were regular and beautifu, without a single exception r and all of them, both male and female ? had this, most marked gnglisli features. The cloThing of the young females consisted of a piece of linen reaching from the waist to the knees,. and generally a sort of mantle thrown loosely over, the shoulders, and hanging as low as the alleles; but this covering appeared to,he intended chiefly as a pro-, ,section against the sun and the weather, as it was Ire.' 'quently laid aside-and then the upper part of the, body was entirely exposed, and it is not possible to conctive more beautiful forms than they exhibited., They sometimes wreath caps or bonnets for the head, in the most tasty 'manner, to protect the face from the rays of the sun; and though, as Captain Pipon observes, they Nava only had the instruction of the' Otaheitan mothers, " opr dress-makers in London would be delighted with the simplicity. *ad het Ae gant taste s of these untaught feilales: Thiir ASO; modesty, Itisifled by s pm" !oast! ' • _..._ .# • of religion anti mordjity, instilled into their ycnthfut minds by .lohn Adams, has hitherto preserved these interesting people perfectly 'chaste, and free from all kinds of debauchery. Adams Assurea the viJims, that since Christian's death there had not beet single instance cf any young woman proving un chaste, nor any attempt at seduction on the p.:rt of the men. They all labour while young in the culti. vAtion of the ground, and when possessed cf t sue. cient quantity of cleared 1 and and Of stock to malit• twin a family, they are allowed to marry, but always with the consent cf Adams, who unites them by a sort of marriage ceremony of his own. The greatest harmony prevailed in this I:ttle so. ciety ; their only quarrel, and these rarely I:4lpeneci, being, according to their own txpe:;si(iii, yiari els of Um maith s" they are lioneht in their which consist of bartcrinz rticLs clu• fuel Accommodation. Their habitations are extremely neat. The little village of Pitcairn forms a pretty sertare, the • houses at the upper end of which are occupied by the patri. arch, John Adams, and his family, couse:,;:ng os his old blind wife, and three daughters from fifteen to eighteen years of age, and a boy of eleven ; a davit. ter of his wife by A former husband, as.d a sea in. law. On the opposite side is the dwelling of nurs-. day October Christiao; and in the c e n t re i s a smooth verdant lawn, on which the poultry are let loose. fenced in so as to prevent the intrusion of the do:Ise:- tic quadrupeds. All that was done was obviously undertaken on a settled plan, unlike to any thing to be met with oat the other islands. In their houses too they lird a good deal of decent furniture, consisting of beds laud upon bedsteads, with neat covering ; they had also tables, and large chests to cont.tia their valuaLles and clothing, which is made from the h Irk of . a cer tain tree, prepared chiefly by the elder Otalwitan fe males. Adams's honse eonsisee.3. of t::) rooms, and the windows had shutters to poll to at night. The' younger part of the sex are, as befo:e stated, em ployed with their brothers, under. Ote 6irection of their common fa:tt.r, Adams, in the culture of the ground, which cucoa.huts, bananas, the bread-fruit-tree, y..no, sweet potat , :es, mid turnips. !ley have also plenty ui hogs and goats. 'rhe. woods ::bound with a species et wild hog, and the coasts of the island with sever.il kinds of good fish. • Their agticultur.ll im; . :leriwzits are rnas. l .,e by them• selves from the fret: supplied by the Euer.ty, with great labour, they twat out into spades, hatchets. B,:c. This was ant all. The good Old man kept a regular journal s , in which was entered the nature and quantity of work perforated by each tatnily, what each had received, and what was due on account:- Tieere was, it seems, besides private procerty, a sort of general stock, out of which articles were issued on Account to the several members of the community ; and 1.0.- mutual accommodation, exchanges of one kind of provision for another %vete very frequent, as Atilt for fresh provisions, vegetables end fruit for haul. try. ti,h, &c.; al,o, when the steles of ono family. - were low, or wholly erpended, a fresh sni:•,-ly was raiied from another. or nut of the general stock. to be rernid wht-Ja muse ta vourahle ; All of which were carefully noted down in ionit ,tidams's Journal. 40t what was mot gratifyiog 01 to the visitors was the simple and unaffected manlier in crilich they returned thanks to the Amaiours . fir she many bles sings they enjoyed. They never failed to say grace before and atter meals, to pray every waning at and they frviluently repeated the Lout's Prayer and thg Creed. " It WAS truly ph sing," says Captain Pipon, to see these poor people so well disposed, to listen so attentively to moral in struction, to believe in the attiibutes of Goo, and so place their reliance oe Divine goodness." The Jay on which the two Captains landed was S4tlllllY 1!le 17th September ; but by Jahn Ad ams'; acc , lunt it was Sunday the iStii, and they were kreping the Sabbath by Taking it a day of tei:t and of pi.syee....- This w.ts occasioned by the Doenty having pr. ;ceded thither by the eastern route, on 4 our frizates haying go o to the westward ; an:, l the Topaz found them right according to his own reckoning, sin:having alsO approached the island from the eastward. Every ship from Europe proceeding to pitcairree island round the Cape of Good Hope will End them a day later.—As those who approach Owns rouni Cape Horn, a day in advance, as was the case with Co tain Folger and the Captains 4 4 4 T. stainef and pie Tte visit of the Topaz is of coarse, as a notable circumstance, mai ked down in John Adams's Joni.. nal. The first ship that approached off the island was on the t.lth December, 1M; but as she did not approach the land, they could not make out to While nation she belonged. A secoud appeared some time after, but did not attempt to communicate with theM. A third came sufficiently near to see the natives and their habitations, hut did not attempt to send a boat on shore ; whi:h is the les, surprising ; causidering the uniform tuggedness of the coast, the total want of slieher, and the almost constant and violent freak ing of the sea against the cliffs. The geod old man was anxious to know what was going on in the cla world, and they had the ;twins of gratifying hi: ca riosity by supplying him with some raga ni nes and modern publicatiotts. His I;brary consisted of the books that belonged to Admiral Bligh, but the visi tors had not time to inspect them. They inquired particularly after FletcherCliiitaian. This ill.feted young man, it seems, was never harpy after the rash and inconsiderate Step which f. h:id taken ; he became sullen and morose : and practised the very same kind cat conduct towzrels his cornpa 7 &liens in guilt which he and they so loudly compltNi ed against in their late Commander. Disappointed in his expectations at Otaheite, and the Friet:.lly lslandf, and most probably threading a discovery, this &laded youth committed himself and his re maining confederates to the mere chance of Hog cast upon same desert island, and chance threw theta on that of Pitcairn. 'Finding no anchorage near it, he ran the ship upon the rocks, cleared her of the live stock and other articles which they had been supplied with at Otaheite, when he set her on fire, that no trace of inhabitants might be visible, and all hope of escape cut off from himself and his wretched followers. He soon however disgusted ?oth his own countrymen and the Otaheitans, by his Oppressive 'and tyrannical conduct ; they divided int'opartiep a aid disputes and affrays and murders wer e . she gig'. we . acquence. His chaheitan wife died ?within 1? MlArly i I 1 I