The National Register. — London, England, 1817-09-01 00:00:00

rT A+~ pi:, 4 strnck and Hying before him, he perhaps might have pained posAession of that fortress : hot he lost that opporionity by delay, and his followers tire become dissatisfied ; while the inhabitants of Florida are taking alarm, from the ursron• slue of hi: out- poNts, and the planters arc petitioning the otii • Bens of the Ann:sit•au Go eminent en the frontier for per eli,sion to bring their negi ors into our territory for 'tartly." ArRICA. Authentic letters front the coast of Barbary announce a real triumph for civilization. For tome years the !ley 01 Timis has sobjerted to goarantine the vessels that come from Egypt or from other infected countries. Lately, a vessel silted with pilgrims who were infected has been burnt. It 'tab these pilgriisis who, having violated their q uarantine, a;ttl fled to the mountains, spread the couta.z.ion io.trrica. At the value time, after the example of the Bey of TIMiSs the lit-y of Algiers, yielding In the present entreaties of the French Consul, has ordered all those suspected of infection to he tal;en sip anti subjected to a species of quarantine aboard of an isolated vessel Tinder strict watch. It were to be wished fie• the silks of humanity, this evample 5v:15 .I'olloW e] in the other States of 'Flukey : and ohy should ant chris- Van Prince: unite in demanding, as a great PAtropean bete fit, the estahlisliment of a gear:tonne law in it the ronntries AVTlefe conta_•ion reigns;. If there really exists in the law of nations a right by whirl, one state is authorised to demand front another the removal of a dangerous enemy, there is no reason why such authority shook' not lye exerted to remove a scourge which is perpetually renewing, to desolate the countries lii which it originated, and which threatens at every instant suafrightful ravages to the rest of the world. NORWAV. The German papers contain a singnlar article, dated Christiana, in Norway. Bernadette's system of coverninq ,Sweilen and Norway is plainly fixposed, and its absurdity fairly proved in every department. The utter ruin of Nor. way in particular it predicted, as about to succeed to his ex elusive system of commercial. policy la short, if the !mini• meats of the Writer of the article are those of his Swedish and Norwegian subjects generally, his popitl lily hangs by a narrow thread. How galling must it he to the Su etles, tnr instance, to learn, that Great Britain is now supplying all Europe with bar iron at 181. per tau, a comnindity l'or which the iron masters would gladly have token 9i. per ton two years ago; and (ruin this wide mart for their staple article, time Swedes.liave been shut out by Bernadote's antisocial policy. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, Aug. 26. --0.- BANKRUPTS. VALTWI J. V,llllllington, Oxford, dealer, Sept. 0, 10, Oct. 7, at Ox fed. Att. Mr. Crafts.,ian. Foley-street, Portland-place. TIOOIERKE F. White Hall. Carmarthen, dealer, Sept. 18, 19, Oct. 7,it Carmarthen. Att. Mr. Price. Lincoln's Inn. Barr! J. T. Hondura-street, Old -street, distiller, Sept. 6, 16, Oct. 7, at Guildhall. Au. Mr. Martin. Vintners' Hall. I) \UNCEY .1. Balstonbury, Somerset. Cattle dealer, Sept. 22, 23, Oct. 7, at Simonet. Atts. Messrs. Dyne and son. Lincoln's Inn fields. TUCK FITT P. and TttCYFTT W. Bristol, grocers, Aug. 30, Sept. 9, and Oct. 7, at Bristol. Att. Mr. Thompson, Gray's Inn-square. Big r - 1 - 11 R. J. Brecon, ironmonger, Sept. 12.13, Oct. 12, at Here flat. Att. Mr. Pugh, Bernard -Im%, Russell-square. 111VIDEND5. II clerk, Derebarn. Norfolk, inn-keeper, Sept. 9.0. J. P. 11. Ilagedoni. Old llrnul-street, merchant. Sept. 17. E. Drown" and 'l'. liindlc, Blackburn, Lancaster,grocets,merchanst, Sept. J. Ilturison, London, merchant, Sept. 16. w. Wood. Monmouth, grocer, Sept. 18. T. Coward. Bath,linen-draper, Sept. 17. J. Newnhani, l'ortslade, S'u.s.ex, brewer, Sept. IR. T. Y,ounghusband and E. Walker, Newgate-street, warehousemen, Sept. 16.. W. Piper, I lammersmith, bar Kc-builder. Sept. 20. J. Parthint:. St. Jo'm Street, victualler, Oct. L. Gray, and 'P. Lever, Newgate-street, worsted trimming manu facturers, Sept. 16. 11. II igginson, Finsburv-souare, merchant, Sept. 16, Maciion. Sheffield, silver plater, Sept. 19. U. Lewin, Bishopsgate.street, jeweller, Sept. 16. It More, Slome-street. Chelsea. carpenter, Sept. 16. „T. Cooper, Carlton, Lincoln, horse-dealer, Sept. 16. J. Edwards, Clare-street, Clare-maket, silversmith, Sept. 16. J. Cunningham, Market-street. liedforl, corn-dealer, Sept. 16. T. Iler'Jnt, Ilanway-street, 0 ford• street, baberdadicr, Sept. 16. P.. qrafron. Liverpool, glasi, am! earthenware-dealer, Sept. 18. C. Orinsted, Horsham, Suisex, banker, Sept. 19. lilrich, Croydon, hanker, Sept. 16. It. Pellowe, Falmouth. fiercer, Sort. 16. C. Martin, Brecon. inn-keeper, Sept. 16. It. Collins, Straatl, jeweller, Oct. 50. CERTIFICATh:S, SEPT. 16. . . P. B. Bland, Torkington, Chester calico-printer—.T. Shemin, Safford, iron-founder—E. Bourne, Burslcm, Stafliml,emhnu facturer of earthen-ware—R. Sanderson, Achlam, upon tlx Wolds, York, fanner. The Gazette of TtaAay night announces the ap pointment of Lieutenant General Francis Thomas Ham mond to the Office of Chief ['perry to his Royal High ness the Prince Regent, and Clerk Marshal of the Sta bles, in the room of Sir Benjamin Bloomfield promoted. S,mt; of the good old sterling Comedies are to viva the ensuing season at Drury-Lam. Theat.-e, o.le theiz is said to b.. 2. Ben Johnson's PO/ponc ; 0,-, the r, as altered by Garrick, in which there are two cha ra,7ters admirably adapted to the ‘l)ilitiett of Kean and Manden. The stage at Drury-lane is to be lighted with gas ; and it is supposed will produce a more agreeable c:fect up:m the eye , than if a large lustre were suspend e.l in the middle of the Theatre. The whole of the Corps de Ballet is - struck off from the list of expendi tare, as it was considered that the time which they or c,lpied greatly prolonged, without much improving the entertainments of the evening. Both the Theatre?' have arranged to begin the performances at seven o'clock in future. 'fur FEMAIA Eve.—A modern writer gives the following enumeration of the expression of a female eye :—'file glare, the stare, thz leer the sneer, the in vitation, the defiance, the denial, the consent, the giutee of love, the flash of rage, the sparkling of hope, tire lati : , tiishvo.mt of allln tt . i , the splint of sullition, thafire - 'of jca' , ltu•:;:, and the lus;.tc ui.ricasure. TITE NATION ( AT, nEGISTrII REVIEIV OF L17'E1t471,711r. MARINER'S ACCOUNT OF THE TONGA ISLANDS. Cott inucd from our last. Our extract from this interesting work left Mr. Ma riner on board the brig Favourite, Copt Fisk, to which vessel' he had eti;?eted his escape: 1* the course of the morning, several canoes came along side, and, by mid day, the king himself, with his sister, and several of her female attendants, bringing with them hogs and yams as presents, Su great was the confidence of the kid in the good faith of our countrymen, that he, as well as the females, slept on board all night, and it was with sonic difficulty that Mr. Mariner and Capt. Fisk per footled him to give up the idea of accompanying them to Eng-laral. flefOre the departure of the ship, Mr. Mariner recovered the Journal of the Port-au.Prince, which he had carefully concealed during the time of his residence on the island. He also procured three Eng lishmen (part of the crew of the Port-au-Prince) to be brought off,' one of whom, however, declined return ing to England. The ship how prepared to take her departure from Va vaoo, uml Mr. Mariner to take leave ot his Varmito Ii lends, prohahiy for ever : the king again e:abraeeil kiln in ill- 111014 alleetionate manner. made him repeat his promises to re. turn, it possible, to Tonga, an:l take lout back to Eogland, that he might least. to ce".l books of history, study astronomy, and thus acipiire a pop..!initEliropealo mind. As to the go vernment ot Vavaun, tie said tint might be consigned to the en. verinnent of Its uuele , who would make a good king, for he was a brave MID, a wise man, stud withal a lover of peace. At this parting, abundance of tears were shed en both sides, Finow returned to his With a heavy heart, and Mr. Ma riner felt all the sweet bitterness of parting from laugh loved friends to visit one's native country ; he bade a long :Wien to the brave and wide Finow Fiji,—to the spirited and heroic lia'a Api Api,—natural characters which want of opportu nity renders scarce, or which lire not obs:!rvahle ainid the bustle and b - nsint Si of civilized life. The canoe returned to the beach,—the ship got tinder way, and steered her course to the Hapai islands, leaving VaVAIIII bad all her dourishing plantations lesse 1111 l g ill the distance. We shall now present our readers with extracts of such portions of the work as may make them acquainted with the peculiar manners of the people; tin., upon this subject, Mr. Mariner's information is very superior to that of any of those who have preceded him in their visits to this interesting part of the globe. " One morning iltariug Finow's stay at this island, some of the natives brougin to Mr. Mariner his watch, which they had procured from out of his chest, and with looks of curiosity inquired what it was. He took it from them wound it up, put it to the ear of one of them, and returned it : every hand was now outstretched with eagerness to take hold of it : it was applied in limns to their ear.: the y wcre a.tonildictl at the nuts it made they listened again to it; turned it on every side, and exclaimed " niu-son" (it is alive!) : they then pinched and hit it, us it expecting at would squeak out ; they loosed at each other with wonder, laughed aloud, snapped their lingers, and made a sort of clocking noise with the tongue (expressing anittzethent) One orought a sharp stone for ' Mr. Mariner to force it open with ; he opened it in the proper way. and slier; ed them the works ; several endea voured to seize hold vitt at Once, autl he who gut it ran away akb it, and all the rest atter I . In about au hour they it:- trolled with the watch completely broken to pieces. One had the case, another the broken the wheels and works wet e distributed among them. They (lieu gave him the frag totems, and 'mole signs to him to put it together, and make it du as it did Mho e : upon which lie gas e them to mide.stand tut they had killed it, and that it was impossible to bring it to lite again. Hie man alio considered it his property 4:ls claimed moirmir spoiled!), and made a hissing noise, ex pressive of disappointment : he accused the rest of using violence, and they iu return ace a.ed I • And Otte another. Whilst they Were dint in high dispute, there Came another native, who had seen and learned lime use of a watch on hoard a French slop ; when lie least toil the cause of their dispute, he called tnein all cur elite (a pack of fouls), and ex plained, in the following manlier, the use of the watch :-- making a circle in ihe sand, with sundry marks :Wont its cir cumference, aril turtling a suck about the reotre of the Cir cle, to rep esetit jilt iittleN, he liithrisieti them that the use of the wan b nits to tell %litre the sun was ; that when the sun was in the east, the watch would voila to such a marls, and when the sun was highest it ;sunlit point here, and when in the west it would pinta there; and this, lie said, the watch would do, although it Wit.. in it (tout-c, could not See the sun; and iii the nigtit•tiiiie, lie added, it would tell what por tool ota day's lunglii it would lit bider(' the sun would rise again. It would lie &lilt - lilt to to trey au attenitale idea of vise said it was an ittiothur .aid it was it ; unit when this mail (Old tlictit it wits maim factui cd, they all exclaimed F./allots hoio s. hat an ingenious country ! Ail this Mr. Mariiier collected partly by - weir ges tures, and afterwards more folly when he undeisimid their language, and conversed with this man, who always ;Hided himself upon his knon ledge of the use ul' watch, calling hum sell palaugi Eiti ()prim)." The thllowing account which Mr. Nlariner received of the dezmiction of the Alissionaries, is more circum stantial than any hitherto published by the survivors ; indeed, there appears to have been so total a want of common sense in their proceedlags, that we do not wonder st their being ashamed to communicate the real truth. As Mr. Mariner had in his possession a few printed books and some %irking paper, Ile 554 S often found by Finow either writing its reading : !day the latter desired hill' to give op all his books :mil papers; which, when he had done, he had th e lifieatioa 10 tion that they were ordered to be On requiting au expianaiion of this extraordinary conduct, on the part of it Mall m 110 appeai cd on other tura slow to he so tttttt triend, lie i.as ntlbrnu d , throtir,la the medium of 'Coin Tom, that the king could not, on any de• coital anon him to firm:llse Mueherall to the injury of the priloe; dud tii.it it oi.is 55,11 Amts II to Ilse king awl 1.. that Sleek. VIM, ' , apt IN %I'll: iii•triniv ins and oilcans of invbcalitik„ to itring th..vu • 0,111. 1•% II Or plat,lit• 1111011 the (-wintry. Mr. Alai liter could t %sell comply- SFPT. Y. hem' Tooi Tool's interpretation ; but when he afterwards un derstood the language, the king explained to hits his opinion of hooks and papers, and gave his reasons for that opinion in the following account Some years ago, on the arrival of an European vessel, one of the' white men came to live among them by choice. This man's more was Morgan. He lived for a considerable time on terms of great friendship with the natives, and was much respected by them. Sonic time after • wards there came another European vessel, (the Duff, Capt. W lists's, with the missionaries,) and from this ship also there came several white men, to live by choice among them. The white men that conic last built a house, in which they used` idles to shut themselves up, to sing and perform ceremonies, (cis Fitton/ expressed it). Matters as cut on very well for some thin.; at length a quarrel ensued between Morgan and the other white men, at first about au iron pot which he wanted to borrow of them, and then about some pigs which they sa:d he hail stolen from them : upon this they Wm mod the chiefs that this Moreau had been a tyid mail in his own country, and was under sentence of banishment fur his from the toll execution ni as Melt he had escaped. (lie hat escaped lions Botany Hay.) The people then begets to treat Moreau w Soh every species of insult, so that his life wet very tiocirafortaldc, and often in great danger. Mut gan iu his tin n told dm chiefs who tiny were ; viz. that they were men sent out b; the Kiag of England, to bring a pi stileuce upon the people of Tonga, and that they accordingly shot thirsts, Ives ep in this house, to pertin in witchcraft, and make incantations, which was the cause of the pestilence that then raged; (there was an epidemic disease at the time, w bleb was very fatal among the chiefs, two or three dying every day,) and that all their books were books of w itcheraft. The chiefs began to take alorgan's statement into serious consideration there certainly was a great mortality among them : the white men often assembled, and sang very loud; besides which,. they would nut let the Tonga people be present ; and to pre vent them even from peeping through the ereviecs of the reed fencing of the house, they st , ipt them tip with all kinds of filth, knowing that the cleanliness of the Tonga people would not then allow them even to approach. And the chief said to themselves, if these people are doing no harm, why do not they allow ask) be present? we du not c-nceal our ceremo nies (ruin them, why do not they expose theirs to ns? In the meanwhile Morgan said to the chiefs, You see the effect oftlseir incantations; several of you arc dying every day ; by and by you will be all cut off, and the king of England will take possession of your islands; for, although you have the remedy in your power, you will not make use of it.'—The chiefs took the alarm in time ; they rushed upon the white men, and killed all but three, who were under the protection of Vearlii,' a great chief." The following passage is highly curious, as afford ing another proof that heiroglyphics are the origin of letters. Finow was astonished that his name could he written by one person, and recognized by another without his head or his limbs being pourtraye+l. Had the paper contained any objects familliar to the eve a Finow, his astonishment would have no doubt less. Mr. Mariner, haylof t , heard that European ships more fre quently touched at sings' than at any of the other islauds, written, while yet at Tonga, an F.ngliall letter :will) a so lutiou of gunpowder and a little mucilage for ink,) on soi.se paper which one of the native§ had bail a long time in possession, and addressed it to whomsoever it mi;dit be, stat ing the cirrimistonces of his situation, and that of II coin. pasiions. 'Else letter he had ceistided to the care of thisrlisel of Nlatanga, (the consecrated place formerly ms idiom its with directions to give it to the captain of any ship that might ar iive at Tonga. Tooi Tooi, (the :sandw ieli i•slandei) having somehow heard of this letter, mentioned it to Finow, and re presented it to be a notice to Eine/lean ships of the tat t• o f the Port au Minn., and a request to take revenge for the ilestisictiou of her crew. Finow imineshrtely sent for the• letter, and, under souse pretext or ;souther, mooing il it tram ' the chief of Malatiga. When it was put into hi, hands, tic looked at it on all sides; but lint being able to make a::y thing isf it, lie gave it to one of the Englishmen who was at liaml,(Mr. Mariner not be;tig present) and ordered him to tell him what it meant. The mail took the letter, and trans • luting pait of it into the Tonga language, judiciously repre sented it to be merely a request to any English captain ilia might arrive , to interfere with Fiume for the fiber: y of Mr. Milliner and his countrymen; stating, dust they, Intil been kindly treated by the natives, but, nevertheless, isishcd to return, if possible, to their native country. This aas not, indeed. the true substance of the letter, out it was what was least likely to give offence ; and V•e. chief accordingly re marked, that is was very nazi al for these poor fellows to wish to go hack to their native country and friends This mode of communicating sentiment was ass inexplica ble puzzle to Fiume ; he took the letter again and examined it, but it affor.ied him no information. lle thought a little. within himself; but his thoughts relit cted no light upon the ',object. At length he sent for tie. Mariner, mil desired him to write down something; the latter asked what lie wool , ' (ionise to have wt siren ; lie replied, put &swill roe ; lie accordingly wrote." l' , ..enow;" CUM git accordingly to the strict English orthography,) the tde( then scut for another Eligh , limaii, who had not been are cat, and commanding Ntr. denier to turn his back, and look another way, lie Rase the paper, and di:sited blot 10 tell what that was ; he accord- Mgt. , pronoiliwed aloud the name of the king, upon which ' , Mow snatched the paper trout his hand, and, will* astunisli inent, looked at it, turned it round, oust examined it in all directions; at length he exclaimed, 0 This is neither like myself nor any body else! where ate my eye., where is my head ? —where are my legs?—How can you possibly know It to be I?" and then, without stopping for any attempt at an explanotion, lie impatiently ordered Mr. Mariner to write something else, and thos ein; loved hint for tines or lour hums in putting dow n rile nano, of different persons, places, and things, and making the other man read them. This atiOrtled extraordinaiy diversion to Finovv, and to all the men and women pi e§ent, particularly as he now and then whispered a little love anecdote, is Inch was strictly written 'lowa. and audibly read by the other, not a little to the contusion of one or other of the ladies present; but it was all lake II in j;00 , 1 IIUIIIOIII., fur curiosity and astonishment were the ',revolting passions. How their names and cii cum stances email UC emilinunicated through so my sterious a 11:11i11111l . k, was altoget:ser past their conipteliension. Finns' hail long sign forowd his opinion of books and paper-, (see p. bat, and this as .ls resembled is it chill aft as any thing iie had ever seen or heard of. Mr. Mariner in ails atienii ed toexplaiii. •He had yet too Mender a knowledge of their liusan:tge 10 make 111.11S1 - 11 . CI. l'SlOOll it would nut base been an eat) mater to have ii.e :~~