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HORRIBLE CA, ------- - The following account will be reed with asto nishment by those who have been for years contri buting large sums for the support of Missionaries to preach the Gospel and extend the blessings of civilization throughout the islands of the South Sea. Unless the inhabitants are incurably vieloyi and in tractable—and the accounts of our voyages' give us no reason to believe that they are so—those who have been sent for their improvement and instruc tion must have lamentably neglected their duty. The events we record are from the Tama:rim of Jan. 28 1831. _ _ , - ,are about to relate took place, is at the southern extremity of the northern island, a beautiful coun try, possessing important rivers and harbours, and every other natural advantage. The natives there congregate in numbers of from 800 to 1000,1 under the authority of some influential individual, who possesses, we apprehend a sort of legitimate chieftainship. At that part of the northern island to which we now refer, there are two of these so vereigns, the one is named Hecho, the other Ro bulloh. It does not appear that these names are patronymic ; they appear to be rather titulatory, inasmuch as the article 4 4 The" is always prefixed to them. Thus they are designated as " The Hecho," or " The Robulloh." As is the case in all other parts of the world, Christian even more so than heathen, the people are engaged in fre quent wars ; upon these occasions, all prisoners who are taken, become not only slaves to the cap tors, but their lives are only held by the uncertain tenure of the pleasure of the owner. The chief Hecbo, has 600 or 700 of these unfortunate peo ple. Most of the chieftains of both islands have paid more than one visit to Sydney, generally in some one of the Missionary vessels, who are occu pied in an extensive, and it cannot but be a highly profitable trade, conveying ftom these and the other islands in the Pacific, cargoes of pork, cocoa-nut oil, flax, and other articles. When a ship anchors in any of the bays, the chief, attended by a numerous body of his sect. goes on board immediately. His first operation is to examine the strength of the vessel, as respects her means of offence or defence, and this not more with a view of petty thieving, which is considered a matter-of-course practice, but to the capture of the vessel herself, if such appears to be practicable. They appear to possess some of the very worst pro pensities with which the human race is afflicted.-- For example, as respects their food, they consider human flesh to be the sweetest and most delicious' of all possible food, So regardless are they of hu man life, that they are in the habit continually of coolly murdering their slaves for the slightest fault. Captain Briggs was witness to an instance of a young female being put to death, merely for re fusing to perform some menial service required of her, and he himself saved the lives of two young men (who had run away from their owners for fear of being murdered for some trifling offence), by purchasing them for a few pounds of gunpowder and some fish-hooks. It is not easy to explain the peculiarly horrible passions and habits of this finely formed race of people, by general description. Perhaps the best method will be to relate some of the circumstances which attended Captain Briggs' late visit, from which the reader will be enabled le i form a tolerably accurate judgment of the state of things in genercl. Hecho, the chief of whom we have spoken, is a remarkably fine young man, of about 25 yore old. He is six feet four or five inches in height, and Perfectly well proportioned. He is the sou of a chief who is spoken of as " The Payie," who was taken to England some years ago, where having received great attention, upon his return he declared himself the enemy of all those of his country who should attack any English vessel, or injure any Englishman, of course beyond the mere practise of thieving, which, as we have said, is the vocation of these islanders. Some few years ago, a chief tain of the south-eastern coast had killed and eaten Capt. Downie and the crew of the brig Samuel, a vessel which had been trading there, bartering muskets, powder, and balls, for flax and other produce ; but being either over-confidential or un guarded, his vessel was captured, and himself and crew eaten. The same people it was, who had succeeded in taking a midshipman and a boat's crew of his Majesty's ship Warspite, commanded by the late Sir 3. Brisbane, who were killed and afterwards eaten, as mere matter of course. To avenge these atrocities thus committed upon Payie's friends and allies, the English, that chief and the Robulloh, went in 1822, with a strong body of their people, and taking the former by surprise, they killed and ate all they could find, destroying all before them of the unfortunate clan, who, in their turn, fur nished food for their cannibal appetite. Glutted with blood, but still hankering for more, they landed upon Banks's Island with the same horrible intent. But there, they met with a check. The chieftain, who was called the Marinewie, was pre pared for their reception ; a battle ensued, in which the invaders were defeated, with the loss of the Payie, who, being taken by the Marinewie, was by that chief killed and eaten, as was also an English man named Smith, who had joined the allies in their predatory excursion. The Robulloh escaped, and on his return to his native place, united with the Hecho, the son of the Payie, who had succeeded to his eaten father's throne, in the determination to avenge the former disaster. Thus matters stood, until about the middle of last year, when Captain Briggs, in the Dragon, an iced ut the territory of these allied Chieftains. Their first attempt was to endeavour to induce him to accompany them in an expedition which they had been for some time preparing, against the Marinewie, promising him that if he would join them therein, they would furnish his ship with a full cargo of flax in return. They by . _ ungkilful diplomatiste. They urged that the Payie had been in England, and was the friend and avenger of the English—that the Marinewie, who ha& killed and miten-him, had also killed and eaten more whiteAnen than say other New Zealander whatever, and they promised " subsidies" in return for the ntial salvias which they well knew they shoal& Mein from a commander and a vessel such as Capt. Briggs and the Dragon. They did not howeier sectmed.— Capt. Briggs peremptorily refused to be associated in the horrid enterprise. Not so, however, the commander of another grids§ veWel, which happened just/hen to wire npiikilindieg valve. She was a fine brig of three • tuaited tons,. whose name, and that of the commander, we for bear for the present to insert. The two chiefs agreed with this person, that his ship should con vey them and their people to the country of the Marinewie, where the war was carried on to utter extermination: On the 22th October of the last year, the expedition sailed ; there was a fins lest of war canoes, and the two chiefs, with about one hundred picked warriors, were on board the Eng lish brig. Captain Briggs remained at the anchor age, procuring by the usual means of barter, a cargo for his vessel. On the llth of November the expedition returned, having been entirely suc cessful. The Marinewie had been taken by sur- prise, his whole people destroyed, except such as fled into the interior beyond the reach of pursuit, and himself, his wife, and his daughter, a beauti ful girl of 15, taken prisoners. The captain of the English vessel stated, that on their arrival at Bank's Harbour, the Payie and the Robnlloh had caused all their people to conceal themselves be low; that the Marinewie sent immediately on board to negociate for the trading, which he, of course, suppose was the object of the Englishman's ' val. He demanded two double guns, by way of tribute to himself, for permission to open the trade. This was granted. The trade commenced, and the Marinewie, not suspecting the fate which awaited him, confiding fully on the Englishman's honour, went himself on board to visit hint. After be had been seated in the cabin a short time, the Hach* and Rebutloh jumped upon him, from their place of concealment, as did their people upon all those who had attended him on board, and seizing him by the hair, explained to him his situation. The scene which followed is too dreadful is describe. Under the cover of the night, the .Ro bulloh, the Payie, and their men, landed from the ship, and having succeeded in capturing the wife and daughter of the Marinewie, they sent them on board, and a work of death ensued, utterly unspeak able or indescribable, for the horrible cruelties which were perpetrated. The whole population of the place who did not escape were killed, except about fifty, reserved to be taken back to be sacrificed at the bloody feast of triumph which awaited their re turn. At day light in the morning, the victors were seen actively employed in cutting up and preparing for the steam-kettle the dead bodies of the slaugh tered victims of the night. The crew of the vessel described the horrors which they witnessed as beyond every thing dreadful. The whole of the day was occupied in salting and packing in baskets, beads and bodies to be conveyed back. Amongst the victims was a fine young woman, near her ac couchement, who was cut open, her unborn infant extracted, her head and part of ber body salted, and the remainder, in the presence of the Captain, officers, and the whole crew of the British ship, given to the pigs ! ! On the 11th November,in the morning, the brig having arrived with her cargo of human flesh, living and dead, at about 11 e. m. preparations were made for the triumphal landing. And here a pecu liar feature in the character of the New Zealanders was exhibited. Ferocious as appears to be the male character, that of the female appears in strong contrast thereto. Not a single woman was on the beach to receive either husband or lover (for such there are even in the most savage state, and the New Zealanders appear to be eminently susceptible the tender passion), not a child to welcome its parent, not a father to welcome his son. AU was silence, and, except as respected the cannibal war riors, and the dead mutilated remains of their I slaughtered victims, solitude. The prisoners were landed and ranged, seated on the beach ; their conquerors having brought on shore in baskets the salted bodies of the victims of their ferocity. Each basket is of sufficient size to hold a human body cut up into pieces ; of these there were, ac cording to Captain Briggs's calculation, about one hundred. The war dance then commenced. It is the most frightful method of rejoicing, any idea of which the humaa man mind can convey to itself. The warriors entirely naked—their long black hair, although matted with human gore, yet flowing par tially in the wind—in the left band a human head —in the right a bayonetted musket, held by the middle of the barrel. Thus, with a song, the terrible expression of which can only be ima gined ,by being heard, did they dance round their wretched victims—every now and again approaching them with gestures threatening death under its most horrible form or lingering torture ! But they did not inflict it. None of them were killed. All were apportioned among the conquering warriors as slaves, one old man add a little boy excepted, who were sentenced to be sacrificed to their dmmon of yen geonce. Ihe feast was then prepared, at which these two victims were to be killed and eaten. It consisted of about one hundred baskets of po tatoes, and a sort of green vegetable of delicious flavour, and equal quantities of whale blubber and human flesh. Every thing being arranged, the poor old man was brought forth horribly ac• coutred for death, having affixed round his neck the head of his son, whose body formed part of the infernal banquet then exhibited. Here, for the first time, to the disgrace of the female . . wives or Mothers, whose husbands or whose sons had been in their turn killed and eaten, approached the poor old man, and plucking the hair of his head and his beard, pricking him with the teeth of some fish or other animal, inflicted upon him every posaible bodily torture, while th 6 inventions of their 4111,11Mmiacal countrymen, were doing their utmost to agonise his mind ! Captain Briggs, who wit bussed all this, determined to save this poor man's iVe and that of the boy, who was also to be sa graced, if such could be done by either force az price. The boi was brought forth to die. A a.sil ;NA the ass eittiaded ever his head, end was about Umisave it in twain, when Capt. Briggs, at aliasard which may be easily understood, seized him, and by threats and entreaties, the risk of which at such a time he cannot now contemplate without shuddering, obtained the life of the boy altogether, and that of the old man for the time ! The next day he was taken to another place, when his doom was sealed with every circumstance of horror and atrocity. The boy still lives. Cassia Briggs paid the ransom of his life in muskets sad gunpowder. He conveyed him in safety to his ship, and he is now tere, in Hobart Town, grate fully acknowledging his obligation to the worthy man who saved him from death. In the meantime the bloody banquet went on, the Hecho, the Robulloh, and the rest, devour ing the contents of the baskets we have described with the greatest delight. The manner in which the bodies had been salted, at nearly the hottest season of the year, had been too imperfect to prevent the process of decomposition from pro ceeding to so considerable an extent, that the worms crawled from the putrid flesh as it was devoured. It was a horrible sight. Capt. Briggs had the curiosity to open one of the baskets which was near him. It contained the bead and body of a beautiful young female. One of the officers of the ship who was with him had resolution enough to dissect the breast away with his penknife; he wrapped it up in a handkerchief, took it on board the Dragon, put it into spirits, and presented it to a gentleman in Hobart Town, in whose possession it now is. While this dreadful scene was going on, the Ma rinewie was confined in irons in the fore-cabin of the English brig, of which we have spoken. On the passage from Bank's Harbour to Cook's Strait, this chieftain and his wife, well knowing the dreadful tortures which awaited them from their ferocious enemies, took an effectual method of pre venting their daughter from undergoing the suf ferings to which they knew she was destined : they strangled her. The Captain then placed both the Marinewie and his wife in irons to prevent them also from destroying themselves. They were landed on the 12th of November by the Robulloh, and conveyed from the coast some short distance into the interior. Capt. Brigewes not able to ascertain their fate, but we un cle rated that it was intended that after they had been dis patched with all the torture usual in such cases, the heart of Marinewie should be sent to be eaten by the Hecbo's mother, the widow of the Payie, wbo had been eaten by the Marinewie, that the Robulloh should eat his brains, the Hecho his eyes; the Hecho's sister his tongue, and that the rest of his body should be sent as presents to the Chiefs in the interior. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—JoLv 18. The Loin CIIANCELLOS sat to hear Appeals at one &Clock. TUITOlelt DIVOICE BILL. Counsel were beard on behalf of the petitioner in this case, and witnesses examined. Upon the motion of the Duke of SUSSEX, the further consideration of the subject was postponed for three weeka, the Lord Chancellor intimating that, unless some better evi dence were obtained, it would be needless to occupy more time about the case. The Assessed Taxes Composition Bill, and several pri vate bills, were brought up from the House of Con moos by Mr. Bernal and others, and advanced a stage. The Earl of HAREWOOD presented a petition from a place in Yorkshire, in favour of a provision for the poor in Ireland. The noble lord at the same time presented a pet'. Lion from the same place, against the importation of Foreign Corn.—Laid upon the table. The Earl of RADNOR presented a petition from Gal way. praying foe the extension of the elective franchise to the Roman Catholics. The noble Lord also presented a pe tition in favour of reform, from Macclesfield ; and for an al teratimain the game laws. from some other place. The Duke of NORFOLK presented a petition from Cork, praying for an extension of the grants for the educa tion of the poor in Ireland ; and from the King's County to the same effect. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE presented a petition from Mayo, in favour of reform ; and another from Dreg. beds, against a repeal of the Union. The Marquis of SALISBURY presented a petition from a society in Ireland, praying that some means might be adopted for the amelioration of the poor of that country. The Duke of RICHMOND observed, that a measure upon the subject was under the consideration of his Majesty's Government. On the motion of the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the Order of the Day with respect to the Tithe Composition Bill was proceeded with. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY. after some preli minary observations, observed that, since he had introduced the measure, he had received a variety of information upon the subject. He would rot have brought forward the measure. had be not been urged to do so by the great body of the clergy, who were as anxious as the tithe-payers that some definite arrangement upon the subject might be mite to. The object of the Bill was to remove the objections ex. fisting at present to the tithe system, and to put a stop to those scenes which were so frequently witnessed, when the claim of the clergyman for his titbts was enforced. The Right Reverend Prelate entered at length into the law re lating to tithes, as it at present stands, and the objects in. tended to be accomplished by his measure. It was intended by the bill to empower clergymen to enter into a composi. don with parishes, and also to compound the tithes of pri. vats lands, either for money or in kind, as the parties should agree. The bill, in all other respects, resembled the ma. sure which he had introduced last session. He had been asked why be had not proposed perpetual commutation in. stead of composition, but his answer was, that it would not be possible for him to have introduced any measure for periletual connotation that would be found satisfactory, or that would be based upon ptineiples either of justice or expediency. The Right Reverend Prelate th pointtd ~., ....,___ , ~.., , : ric ~„,,,,,,,... ....,,...... ~ , lu 1 , . , t ~,,„ ,\.. , Licra, _ i 1 Disw —ist —lra 0 Ilialgasaa) 3l) 1111114"1211 261,-.%— r - ri. - t. 7 1788. • TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1831. PRIC F. SEYENPENCF CANNIBALISM IN NEW !They were by no means unikilfnl diplomatists. !character, a few .women appeared. Some fel ZEALAND. I They urged that the Payje had been in England, and I wives or Mothers, whose husbands or whose soi ' f - out some of th.. elliculties in the way of a general measure continutaiion. In some parishes the tithes were of ren” ddrd leas value than in others. and consequently, no unifiem system could by any possibility be arranged, SO as to Inset with dm apprebanon of those who received and those who ,paid tithes. He might be asked why he had not included In his Bill the tithes in the hands of lay-impropriators ; but to such a question be would answer that the .ante evils did not exist where the tithes were in the hands of laymen, that existed where they belongd to ecclesiastical persons. Thin ha thought was a very w dent reason for the nip bison. He WM einesediogly desirous that the measure should pass into skm as speedily as possible, for he was fully a.saliticed that midi a composition as that proposed bx this Bid, imild - re. Owe the evils to which the tithe system was subj.-cu. The LORD CHANCELLOR rose thus early in the de. 'Wows this momentous question, because in Inc name= be filled he was anxious to state his opinion to their lord dips. He had paid the fullest attention to the speech of the most rev. prelate, and it had left upon his mind no im. preesion but one, that of satisfaction with the measure, and that of thankfulness for the pains which his Grace had be. stowed upon the subject, which his high station in the Church esrptleod of him and which his great experience rendered so illulbefy value:hie. He thought those who were likely to be irtltf-d with this measure, either in the house or out of Sedmight be added into two dunes—into those who ilt that the neddereot the ingot rev. prelate did not go eogh, and them who, in sada to the opinion that it did wet se for sesugh, dif orn alea that so far as it did go did it ist itemine - ii :wares. He did not anti cipate that goy clam of would be found to contend that the MB went tool*, refereoce either to the quiet and saddled= of She 41111111117 2 or to the interiors of the community as te the Joilmosieffllhe Church itself, fanning as it did a very el ileaffi Wk. ot the general interest He sandpit& no suesseiStl Age.* to the measure. It ifficod an impetimminewilifirildit boa long desired. At pseud there wets two giedtffididge In the mean of ptovi. don for the Clergy, ana 'aft lid pre.lBM a remedy for both. In the first place, by the law as it stood, any portion of a parish agreeing to a composition was of no avail. All must consent, or the arrangement, however beneficial or convenient, must fall to the ground. If nineteen persons out of twenty concurred this would nut bind the twentieth person; so that no composition could put an end to tithe, for no majority could bind the minority, however weak, or unreasonable, or capricious that minority might be. Any one individual could prevent his parish from being dialoged from tithe. This evil was com pletely remedied by the bill of the most rev. prelate. It did not permit a small minority to overrule the wishes and ob. atruct the welfare of a whole parish, neither did it permit a simple majority to dictate the composition to the minority. In this respect it preserved a just medium following the principle of a similar measure now in beneficial operation in the sister kingdom. It determined that the proprietors of two-thirds of a parish should have the power of agreeing to ' a composition which should totally discharge the parish from tithe for a long term. The Other defect in the existing law was still greater than that he had mentioned, and it was likewise completely remedied by the bill. By the present law, a composition, however unanimously the parish might WO agreed to it, and although it had the full consent of the Ineumbeet, the patron, and the ordinary, was only binding for the life of the incumbent. So that its parish happened to have a very aged incumbent, or doe whose tenure of life was from any other circumstance deemed pi:canoes, it could have no composition on the security of which any man could pru dently act, eves although the whole tenantry, instead of nineteen out of every twenty, should be desirous of it; for nothing could make the composing(' extend beyond the actual incumbency. This difficulty in the way of compo. Odom would now be effectually removed. Now, in all cases where these were great difficulties to overcome, where the interests at stake were complicated and extensive, where they had to deal with loog.estaialished rights, in all such cases men ought to arrive at a conclusion only after great pains and a most attentive examination of the subject; said after all the attention be had been able to pay to the present question, an attention not of yesterday, for it was now fourteen years since his attention had been turned to the subject in the other House of Parliament, he confessed he bad not been able to see his way any con siderable step further than the Most Rev. Prelate had gone ; either any considerable step further in the same direction, or any considerable step further in any collateral branch of the inquiry. He would therefore moon to a cable baron (Lord Deere). who had a measure now before the House going much further than that of the Most Rev. Prel.te, whether the safer course would not be first to try die (ewe of the BM now under discussion. He felt at the same dm* that he should not do his duty, either to his noble friend or to the House, if he were so withdraw himself from the coo. &Menden of that measure—of that which he might call the rival measure. This was a measure for the commutation, the commutation, of tithe ; and the distinction be. tween= l o was, that them, was perpetual and the other temporary. The Bill of the Most Rev. Prelate was capable of expansion to the full dimensions of that of his noble friend. which might in truth be very easily grafted upon it ; while that of his noble friend was in the nature of a measure not, as it appeared to him, beginning at the right end ; its enactments were perpetual at once, and did not give the coon. try the benefit of experience. He therefore recommended to their lordships to pause after they had adopted the mes. sure of the most rev. prelate. Then if they found they had not gone fax enough, they might go farther, with the bebetit of experience to guide thou in their course. The meagre of his noble friend was bottomed upon the principle that they might find the means of estimating with a view in a bargain out-and-out, if he might so speak, the value of the tithe in every parish. When be took a calm view of the difficulties of such an attempt he did not speak peremptorily. for his noble friend had long considered the subject, and he would not put his judgment in opposition to that of his noble blend ; but he must say that as at present advised, and until be heard the reasons in suppert of the measure, he could not but consider these . difficulties insurmountable. The bill provided than two-thirds of the tithe payers should have the power of applying to the Quarter Bm. siom, which on this application should appoint Com missioners to value the tithe of any particular parish. with a view to a final commutation but there was here no provision requiring the consent either of the incum bent, of the patron, or of the bishop. so that with, r the local occupant nor the perpetual protector, the ordinal y. nor the patron, who might be considered as compounded if the other two, neither of these interests were at all con sulted. If two-thirds of the rate-payers agreed, the ether party, the Church party. if he might so speak, was se have no voice. The nobleond lammed lard here attend kw same details respecting the machinery of lbw bill, the whole of which had been arranged apparendy wkhout tehresee ea the rights of the Church. There was madam difficulty which he admitted might be obviated in the 011oomittoo t the valuer of the tithe against the parish was to be ambled wady by the incumbent. What a door was here speed at to collusion, and even to fraud. The inetenhase riper son careless and indifferent to worldly *few, and he was to have the power of sacrificing the biome el his somemers. He might also be connected with the pares, perhaps the greatest tithe-payee in the parish. It was always assumed that there might be a connexion between the patrea and the incumbent ; therefore is all ewes of ecseptabion fee tithe the law called in the ordinary far the preteens, et the per manent interests of the church. Bat be would m oose another case, that of a Irefy old incumbent, a man with Mt foot in the grave : he might be 'applied to by a single per. son—for a single main in many cues paid more then two thirds of the tithe of the parish—and told that be should have 6001 or 1,0001. if he would appoints valuer who would value the tithe at 601. or 60s. By this corrupt bargain the patron might be injured, and if the patron should be one of the pasties to the bargain the Church might be injured. He took it to be quite clear that this was a great defect in the bill of his Noble Friend, and he hoped if It were now pressed forward that it might be so altered as to require the concurrence of the patron and the ordinary. His objections were, first, that the measure was compulsory on the one side and voluntary on the other. This was an objection to tle ta r i l i :teiple of the bill. His second objection was to the of which he had anticipated the removal in the com mittee. His third difficulty was the great charge the mea sure would effect in the relative value of lay and ecclesiastical property for the future. It might be eery fit that a larger alter.tion should be made than that of the Most Rev. Pre late • it might be proper that more should be done for the battik of the landholder and for the benefit of the cot sinners of awn, upon which the tithe operated as a as. Tnis might be very fit; he did not deny the patatbility of tl.i. ; all he ventured to assure their lordships was that he saw great 41111eulties ibi ltresent in the Bill. 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