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'1 his inventions and powers. The latter.were consequently invoked upon all important occasions. Thus, for ex ample, when they became scarce, or rather when the evil genius took away from the waters and the earth so her caverns beneath, the animals which constitute the principal food of the Entice, our Angekok was employed to bring them back again. This he accomplished, agree ably to his own story, by the following means:—He called to his assistance Torngak, his familiar, and a friendly spirit, in company with ',bona he journeyed to 'the realms below, to combat with the Evil Genius: with this aid, and by his own address, he' vanquished the enemy, and forced her to submit to - his decrees. He then cut off the lower joints of her four fingers, and im mediately the bears were released, and found their way to the upper regions. His next operation was to cut off the second joints, by which the seals were liberated. - The excision of the upper joints performed a like service for the walruses; and finally, by amputating the hand, the whales were freed to revisit the shores of the Esquimau:. To sub stantiate the truth of this great this grand exploit, the bloody knife with which the deed had been done is pro duced, and the re-appearance of the seals, walruses, and whales, infallibly follows. An immense value is set upon the testimonies of su pernatural intimacy : thus the Angekok declared that he would not exchange the spirits gifts, oneof the stripes of fur, for anything that could be offered to him; and it was with much difficulty that Captain Parry did pre vail upon him to barter one fur some highly coveted article; nor would he part with any more, From the length of time during which the natives. were daily with them, our people were enabled to pick up a rather copious vocabulary of their language. Some of the journals contain from five hundred to a larger number of words. Their knowledge of figures is very limited, five and ten being their most obvious, enumerations. When they wish to express the former, one band is held up; the latter, of course, requires both: but when the sum exceeds that number, the Esquimaux calls on a neighbour to help him out, by holding up one or two hands, as the occasion requires. One of our friends related a whimsical anecdote connected with this sort of dumb spew. He was conversing with a native aloue, who wanted to make the large and unusual sign of thirty. He accordingly held up both hands, and was then sadly puzzled how to go farther. It never occur. red to him to break off and repeat the signal in any way ; but at length he happily struck upon ten mote by getting the officer to raise his digitals. Hem were twenty ; but the ten to be added was the grand pond asitioruni of Esquimaux numerals! The difficulty seemed insuperable, but again his genius befriended the calculator ; he held up one of his feet—twenty-five. What was to be &me? Like one of the wise men of Gotham, our clever native tried to hold up the other f o ot at the same time, and his efforts to have• all his .limbs simultaneously in the air were the most ludicrous that can be imagined. Hut it could not be managed; and it was not without an immensity of trouble that the proposed number was finally expressed by the four hands and one foot each of the conversing pa: ties. Other characteie,tic traits of these simi 10 people may h;:. told in this phce. The wives of two of them, one with a baby suckling, (which nutriment they supply for years,) were taken on board the vessels for me dical treatment, both being in the last stages of disease. It was, indeed too late to save them, and they. died. , The liu,band of the mother evinced some distress, and howled a little when she expired, but very soon seemed to forget his loss. Yet he attended very sedulously to t::e proceedings of the Cablunz. They enveloped the body deceinly, as is done with sailors, in a hammock, and dug a : . rivet for its reception. To this it was borne, accompanitd by the husband, who manifested much ureasiness. At last he.made himself understood that he was afflicted by the confinement of the corpse. Having obtained a knife, he was permitted to gratify his own feelings, and lie cut all the stitches which held the ham-. mock together down the front, so :is to give a kind of liberty to the dead form. The covering in of the grave with earth and stones also seemed to give him pain; but he asked leave to bury the living child with its dead mother. . The reason assigned for this horrid proposal was, that being a female no woman would take the trou ble to nurse it, as that was never done among them. If it had been a boy, perhaps someone might have adopted and reared it. In fact, the infant, without sustenance, .did die on the ensuing day, and was placed at the dis posal of its parent, who drew it away in his sledge to'a short distance, and raised a small mound of snow over its lifeless corpse. ' It is cu,ieus to remark, that while they dislike the idea of hurting the dead by putting anything heavy upon them, they feel no regret at the consequence of their own insufficient mode of sepulture—the dragging of the bodies from their light snow tombs to be torn to pieces and devoured by dogs and wolves, as was fre quent), witnessed by our men, who, when the spring dis solved the snow, bad to dig graves for the mutilated 'remains of several of the native corpses thus exposed te, view. There was a considerable mortality among them no fewer than sixteen, old and young,.dying within the few months they spent near the expedition in its se ' cond winter. _ _ _ In the management of the canoe, the Esquimaux are very expert. They are amazingly light, and formed of skin over whalebone. The largest which Captain Parry obtained is twenty-six feet in length ; and we observed another between the decks of the Hecla, which is 19 feet long and only 19 inches wide, hail of which are in the depth. In these the native pursues his marine chase, and spears the fish and fowl. The spear is double-pointed with bone, about six or seven inches in length, and barbed. The shaft is of very light wood, five or six feet long, and below the handle of the part by which it is thrown are three other barbed bones, standing out a few, inches from the wood, and calculated to strike the prey, should the bi-forked point miss. They kill at twenty yards distance. The bow and arrow is also employed in killing game and wild animals. The arrows are pointed with stone, smoothed into a lance-head shape by friction against other stones. A method of catching seals (and, if• we remember correctly, fish also) through a hole in the ice is one of the most dexterous of Esquimaux connivances. A line is let down, at the end of which is fastened a small piece of white bone or tooth, above an inch long, cut into a rode fish-form, and having two morsels of pys rites stuck into it to resemble eyes. This bait is drawn through the water, and when seals or other prey approach lamming it,the watchful native spears them from above. The knives used by the women are curiously con ...meted, and as cleverly employed in skinning animals and carving victuals as the instruments of bunting are by the ram. They resemble a small cheese or sacler's knife; the irowor cutting part being semicircular, and inserted in a bone handle. The whole is three or four ihch6-long. and the edge three or four inches in breadth. I With• these they carve away underhanded in a vey dex terous style. Spectacles are another of their asticles, which strnek us as curious and well contrived. They consist of a piece. of wood scraped thin, like a bandage,. and perforated with two narrow horizontal slits, something like pig's eyes, where we would have glasses s a tial about an inch broad projects in the same direction as that of a hat would ; and this simple mechanical process, tied about the head, protects the eyes from the drifting snow and•' specula, and improves the sharpness of the s ight. BARCELONA. The uncertainty in which the French Papers leave us as te this important fortress, the gallant Mina, Rotten, Ad their steady, brave, and fearless troops, will cause the following anecdote to be read with interest:— During the War of Succession, Barcelona was besieged almostunntinually, and taken twice by. the English and French. .1 he way the Earl of Peterborough captured it in 1700 is thus related:—lt was in possession of the French, who were well supplied with every necessary; our valiant and enterprising countryman appeared be fore it; bediforribarked his small army, and commenced the siege With the vigour and activity whick charac terised all his actions; but the immense strength of the fortifications withstoud all his efforts; at length he had recourse to stratagem ,- and succeeded to the extent of his prudent and . able calculations. He •ordered his troops to abandon everything and embark; mirth and gaiety immediately engaged all the time and attention of the garrison, who, seeing the English fleet sail, were thrown off their guard, and neglected even the common precautionary measures; 'at night-fall Peterborough ordered his fleet tOtack about, and threw ashore a liege body of his best infantry on the sandy point, just below the Castle of Monguich. The disembarkation was effected in silence and unobserved, the Briti h troops ascended the hill, not a moment was lost, preparations for assault were immediately made and the fort was carried by assault before the French recovered from their surprise. Once masters- of this nearly impreg nable place, which commands the •eity arid citadel, the garrisons of both surrendered within . a few days, and their example was followed by esLry other fortress in the province. By the Census taken in 1821, the population amount ed to 98,000, of which 11,000 were national militia ; the garrison does not exceed 5,000 regular troops, ex clusive of the volunteers, and a sacred corps of 80() men equal to the deservedly praised Madrid Militia. Mina commands in person, and De Rotten is Governor, so that it is Uot impossible the Constitutionalists may make a spirited reply to Ferdinand's . Decree,and sustain the cause for a time. At this moment the French cannot have any dis posable force in that province; their army, in April, amounted to .22,000; they have lost 10,000 in the numerous actions in which they have been engaged during a bloody campaign, the remainder' have to gar ison Rosa% Figueras, and Gerona, and blockade Tarra gona, Barcelona, - 1-lostalrich, and Seu d e Urgelt Lauris ton corps is engaged in the siege of Ledda, and Molitor's must dispose of Ballasteros' army (which may cost some trouble), and attend to Carthagena and Ali cant, both strong tortrestes, which were never taken byl the French in the war of independence. THE EVENING STAR• LONDON. MONDAY, ocrotiut 27, 18'23. TIIE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 82k, k, 85, but the moment.lt was known that an Express had arrived, bringing the French Funds, of Saturday one per cent. lower, namely, 891.80 c. and Spanish 27 to 1, our Funds fell to 82k, I, but, owing to n very large purchase, they have recovered to trek. We understand, by private letters 'from Paris, that a certain party who was there. last winter, has again appeared 'on the Stock Exchange, and occasions every day various reports to answer certain purposes. On Saturday it was reported that a number of failures had taken ' place on out Stock Exchange, which threw a great damp on the French Market. • FOREIGN FUNDS. Spanish Bonds opened this awning at £6, _sk,;, 26+; New IN D ; Colombian 55 ; Russian 82k ;. Old aqua 10k ; New n. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. AXIITZROA)I, October 24.—0 n London. 40. H. to 40. 10; I M. 40. 8. to 4U. 10. Hassumr.tri Oct. 24.—0 n London, 54. 13-141 1111. 54. 1. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Reduced 82 81 1 4 5 4 3 per Cent.Cnns.B2 s /. 1 / 2 4 per Ct. Old 98% 99-1 per Cts. New 102% 16 3 Bank Long Ans. 20% 13.16—India Bond* 70s. 695. Elclleg. Rills (C 1,000) 355. 375. Comolsior Acct. 82A 1 / 8 4 1/2. The French Papers of Friday reached us last night, and this morning we received the silohiteur of Satur day, and the Floile of yesterday, by Express. The French head-quarters are every day transferred nearer to Madrid. On the 13th instant they were at gtldea del Rio. The discontent of the army at 1141.LAaTICROS is said to have been soon put down.—.We have also re caved, by Express, a letter from our Private Correspon• dent, dated Saturday evening, which Announces the im portant fact that the remonstrances of the Duke D'Art ooucama have succeeded in preventing the vindictive sentences of the Regency being confirmed, and in sus-. pending the decrees of the KING. The following is the private letter: FROG[ OUR OWN CORRESPOND/MT. " Omani 25, Smo'Cy3cr, A private letter from Madrid, dated the 20th, states that the stun% representations made by K de Chateau-, briand, through M. de Want, and the still stronger lemonstrances of the Duke d'Angouleme, have had, the desired effect on Ferdinand; the sentences of the Re gency are not confirmed, ad the exemniun of, his own decrees are suspended. it is whispered, that the Duke explicitly declared in his remonstrance, that if His Ma jesty did not revoke the decrees, which were calculated to produce civil war, he would withdraw all the French troops, aad leave him entirely to his own resource:. Ferdinand, it is said, was fool-hardy enough to say, ' thent7withdraw, I am powerful enough without them but his Minister-Confessor thought otherwise; and though he was the first to suggest the plans of ven-1 geance, he now felt alarmed for the consequences and the safety of his own dear person,which would inevitably be one of the first victims of popular vengeance. el The most difficult part of the French campaign is yet to act : for how can she give those guarantees to the Spanish nation that are necessary for its tranquillity, when the word of the Monarch is so little regarded ?" The intelligence in the French Papers is interesting, if it can be relied on. It states that Seu d'Urgel has been takes, and that hostilities have ceased before Barcelona. The following are extracts : FROM THE ETOILE OF SUNDAY. AX, OCTOBER IS. We learnt yesterday that the firing still continued at Seu, and the garrison persisted in holding out ; we fired a shower of balls and bombs on the place, several of which fell on the citadel. • Seven o'clock at night.--We learn, that on the 17th, at night, a breach was made in the fort of Seu. AX, OCTOBER 19, Six in the Morning. The forts of Urgel are taken. Two couriers ate ar rived with the ioformation. It was )esterday this event took place.' IeATARO, OCTOBER 91 • Hostilities hive ceased between the garrison of Bar celona and the French and Spanish troops who form the blockade of that place We are assured that the orders of the King of Spain, brought by a Grandee, arrived yesterday at Barcelona. Several flags of truce have arrived yesterday and to-day at the head-quarters of the Puke of Cornegli..ne; nevertheless, the Marshal sent this evening to Matato a Captain of the Artillery, with positive orders. Our naval force has been augmented by the arrival of several vessels from Cadiz. The Mar shal-de-Camp Despres ss as to Strive yesterday at Hos. tallich, to summon the Governor of that place to sur render to the French. It is thought that all the places which still hold out in Catalonia will acknowledge the legitimate po tver Of the King before the end of the month. FAOII THU MONITEUR OF SATCRDAY.—OFFICIAL. TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH. . reir.cElvED FROM BAYONNE, OCTOBER 24.. ALCARAS, BEFORE LERIDA, OCTOBER 19. NIARSUAL LAORISToN TO TIIE MINISTER Al' WA It. " I arrived before Lerida on the evening of the 16th, with my infantry and [he chief of my artillery. On the 17th I summoned the Governor, and on the 18:h a Convention was concluded between him and Baron &Emirs, Captain-General of Catalonia. The town and the castle will, be occupied on the 30th of October. Ho tiiLies have been suspended. I have ratified the Convention." MAN - RUA, ' OCTOBER Q. We hare just received news from Baron Eroles, who, assisted with the allied troops, gained a victory over the enemy, who lately retired on Lerida, under the corn mar:d of their Chief, San Miguel ; the details of this action will be given in the dispatches of his Excellency. PE,RPIGNAN, OCTOBER 9.8. There are continually loading on board of transports, mot tars and other projectiles, to be conveyed to Barce lona, where they are going to pn.lertake the siege; the principal materials for that purpose are taken from the fort of ligneras The Plonitrur contains an ordonnance for regulating y prOceedings in the Isle of Bourbon ; and a long list of French artists and manufacturers to whom medals have been given •for specimens of French art and industry cx':ibited at the 1.00%9 e. The Journal des Delmfts of Fr iday states that the Se cond Corps of the French Army, commanded by Mo lirron, is on its way from Grenada and Murcia to Ca••, talonia; but the Editor thiriks it probable that Barce lona, Tairagona, and H,stalrich will surrender before these reiAforcements arrive. According to accounts from Catalonia, it appears that ROTTEN continued to send ammunition and provisions into Montjruy after the news of the surrender of Cadiz had reached Catalonia. A JJeciee of king FERDINAND, dated Seville, Octo- ' bet 9, concludes thus:—" We have resolved- that a fu neral service shall be celebrated in all tile churches of the Monarchy for the repose of the souls of those who, since the 7th of March, 1820, died in support of GOD% cause and mine." . His Catholic Majesty is very liberal in the distribu tion of such honours as he has to give. Besides giving the golden fleece to the Prince of CARIGNAN and the Marquis of TALArta, he has mule Viscount CHATEAU• BRIA ND, the Duke of BELLuxo, the Marquis of CLEW. HONT-TONNERIt E., Count CORRIERE, Count PEYRONNET, Marshal LA V Hisros, Count ViLtati.e, the Pope's Nuncio, and the Ambassadors of the Holy Alliance to the Re gency, Grand Crosses of the Order of CHARLES 111.-- The following is stated to be, in substance, the speech which the. Xing of FRANCE addressed to the Foreign Ministers when he received the diplomatic corps, on the 21st instant: This ?s the first time I have seen you assembled around me since the great events which have occurred in Spain. I am happy, Gentle Men, to congratulate your Sovereigns on this occasion, being persuaded that I have rendered a service to the thrones and the nations of Europe." Last night we received — Intelligence from Bayonne to i the 19th. Great sensation has been excited in Madrid hy the KLNeS decrees, against which it is said the Duc D'Aufnour.aut and all the Foreign Ambassadors have remonstrated in vain. The accounts from Galicia state that the province is in a state of considerable ferment, in consequence of the equivocal conduct of blonar.o. Dutch Papers to the 25th inst. and Brussels Papers to the 22d,.reached us this morning. The following are extracts : FRANKFORT, OCTOBER re. 'Leven frokk Constantinople say, that the Govern. ment is highly dissatisfied with the Captain Paella, Ind the other Commanders employed against the Greeks, the fohner is to be called to give an account of Ili: co n .. duct on his return. The Pacha of Scutari is also summoned to Coastan. tinople, and if he does not come is likely to undergo the fate of Choutscbid P*cha. Omer Vtione's conduct likewise greatly blamed. lI4GUE, OCTOBER 23. In the sitting of the Second Chamber the Committee who were sent to present to the King the names of di m candidates for the office of President, reported th 4 they had waited on his Majesty the day before, whoh a l answered, that he would immediately select one of dig three candidates. The Reporter observed, that the ('ern. mittee had not been received at the Palace with rn;l. tary honours, which he ascribed to sonic oversight of the commanding officer. The Reporter proposed, and the Chamber resolv e d, that in future, when a 11!putation from the Chamtse r goes to the Palace, the Secretary shall give previn vi notice csf the hour to the officer of the guard. His Majesty's resolution was then presented to th e Chamber, appo'nting M. Von Sandberg President for the present Ses Amt. The sitting broke up, and was indefinitely adjournel The Papal Nuncio had yesterday a long audience of the King. Lisbon Papers to the 13th inst. reached si last night. The deliverance of the King of SPAIN was celebrated in Lisbon on the .sth inst. by 'three salutes 4101 guns each, flans the Castle of St. George, at sun-rise, at noon, and in the evening ; and the city was splendidly illu minated. A Supplement to the Gazette of the Bth gives some fdrther accounts of the deliverance of the King of SPAIN, in which it is said, that the Communeros of Ca. diz caused the departure of the KING to be delayed for a day, by representing to General raiLuez that t h e troops and persons most compromised required that be. fore the )(two went away some guarantee should be granted by theDuked'ANcoutaste. His MAJESTY,tO avoid any disagreeable scene, consented to stay till the following day, and sent ALAVA with a letter to the Duke of AuctounEatz. This Supplement contains alv► King FERDINAND . S Proclamation, dated Cada, Sept. 34, The English brig PARTIIIAN atrived on .the 11th inst. at Lisbon, having on board Mat sbal Lord Butes- FORD, who, as soon as he lanoied, set out for Mafia, to pay his respects to his MAJESTY. Beth on board and on his landing his Excellency was complimented by many superior officers, and other persons of distinction. A Royal Decree has been issued, which orders, tbat to restore tranquillity to the Azore Islands, where anarchical principles have produced great confositin, all criminal p•osecutions, commenced for political opi. • n:ons, even though manifested by overt acts, shall be wholly quashed ; being anterior to the happy epoch of the restoration of the Portuguese. loyalty. PRIORITY OF INTELLIGEYCE.—The Times of tiro morning gives as new, a Proclamation of the Emperor of BRAZIL, which appeared in the STAR of the lath inst., ACCURATE INTELLIGENCE.—fiIe Morning Chronick, on the faith of a letter from 4adrid, announces that "the Spanish prisoners who are in France, are to be ee livered up to the Russian ,Government!" Thinking we presume, that nothing short of a Siberian winter will cool the ardour of the Constitutionalists. SWEDISH POLITICS.—In a late debate in the Chain. her of the Clergy, on the Report (Arlie Constitutional Committee respecting the acquittal of the King's Coun cil of State from the complaints against the Members, Dr. STENHAMMAK said that he would not deny that in the advice they gave, they studied the good of the king dom, but he was afraid they did not advise when they ought; that they proCeeded on the .principle that the King ought to govern alone,.and neglected their right and their duty, of supporting his Majesty by counsels and information; so that the King was wholly lefts, himself, because his Counsellors will not have any opi nion different from his, and consider it as. • their duty merely to approve whatever-he proposes. He therefore wished an Address to be presented to his Majesty, re questiug him to call on the Council of State, on pain of his high displeasure, freelyip speak their opinion re specting everything that can tend.to throw light Gamy subject under discussion. •The result is not yet known. SHOCKING Occonnarece.—Yesterday afternoon, the neighbourhood of Long-acre was suddenly thrown m the greatest agitation and alarm by the following me lancholy circumstance :—Mr. Sherlock, a respectable appraiser and auctioneer,residing in Belton-street, afpr having dressed himself in the morning, went out fee * walk, and returned to dieter about three o'clock. Be had • not been up stairs more than five minutes before his wife observed something strange in his countenance, and all of a sudden he began to rave in a most terrier manner, foaming at the mouth, and pourtrayiog of symptoms of insanity. Several neighbours were call up stairs to the assistance of Mrs.. Sherlock, whi Alp placed in the most imminent danger of her life, the fortunate man having attempted to force herolt.ii, window. Two men, on entering the room, to secure his hands, but they were overpowevelol 6 one of them was pitched ov e r the s taircase by che', 2l6 ' niac, and was most seriously hurt ; the face and WPC of the other were dreadfully lacerated. Tbepoorfitikto extricated himself from every person, and ran dose , stairs into the street, where he s t r ipped off his shirts*. began to beat his head on the curb-stone ; bed:m*o on his knees and offered up an incoherent prayer: ars! Which he ran off, with surprising speed, through Boer court into Drury-lane, and thence into Wild-street; he then turned into Dukestreet, Lincoln's Inn-fields, sad rushed into the Catholic Chapel whilst the cour, tion were at their devotion ; seve r al persons here scow theimfortunate man, and he was with difficulty co' veyed home, to ring vehemently, as he passed th,rolr the streets. A surgeon attended, and the poor so' was secured by a strait-waistcoat ; and such was the tent of the malady, that he was obliged to be down to the bedstead.. He was subsequently coo to an Asylum. •J• Three (Scots) bulls were sold in Bury Mackol i et Thursday se'nnight, for nine hundred and iffy pu to a respectable cow-keeper:of London. • _ . • OLD Mr. Barr , al for purel h ad b ee n sta ready so full] pry to state 2 ing any Wittu readY to t " " MS Ways ay of hors B et hnal Gres pr i s oner was who bad b e !prisoner and la the last t theis m° (la] m t . Freehm , warehouse. Th e Jury having been perty to an rest assured SA:arda: Tarter of fl I , o t one bvau twiny The Op Saturday in tont*: an , more in pa is not a goi fectivc onl actor. 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