The National Register. — London, England, 1816-12-23 00:00:00

bIIOCKING .11,1SSiICRE FROM THE SIDNEY ,SIEW GOCTII WALES BAUTTE.) A vessel named die Brothers, brings a melancholy ac count of ►h,: massacre of several of her's and the Trial's crew, by the New Zealanders, at Trial Harbour, at the evil/dated distanar of 150 miles S. E. of the Missionary B.ation of the •Bay of Islands, being between the River I;istmes and Mercury flay. Mr. Hovel! states, that at half past twelve A. M. he observed a number of canoes aluintside both vessels, bur that from the f - terms he wax on with the chiefs mid other natives. Ir bad no suspicion of any.riesign against the vessels, both of which were provided with boarding hets, through the inter stices of which they bartered their coaniuodities with the islanders. The Tibia's+ people were down at dinner: Mr. Hu, e:1 was ou the quarkr-deck, folding a mat, with a friendly thief, Narruroo, near to whom was another chief; the latter, on some signal supposed to have been given by the former, sprang upon Mr. Novell with his club, and struck hint upon the back of the head ; lac reeled, half stumbh d a second blow was aimed at him, which he avoided by rushing forward and precipitating himself down the forecastle hatchway. 'lke assailants now crowded upon the upper deck, of which they obtained complete possession, while several who had intruded themselves between decks, were opposed by the people and kilted. Those above tried to ship the main hatch, in order to shut the crew below, but two men stationed at the hatchway kept them off with their muskets. Their numbers increased, and a rush was mementarily expected. A constant fire was kept up from below, and the natives crowded all the quarter deck to keep clear of the firing lip the hatchway.' The cabin sky-light afforded on opportunity of firing upon them there; the occasion was embraced, and two discharges drove them off the nuarter.deck. They were astonished and confounded at the unexpected attack through the sky-light, which was fatal to several; they ran forward, still detes mined, however, to persist in their attempt of capturing the vessel. In passing forward they wore again fired at from the . hatchway ; but sit this critical moment arrived Jacky Warry, a native who had Lenore belonged to the Trial, and by his directions to cut the cables of the two vessels, the crews were reduced to the last 1 extremity. They soon drifted ashore, and the assailants, to avoid the firing, crowded in and about the long-boat. A steady discharge of seven muskets at one volley, drove them overboard, and thus the crew regained the deck, of which the enemy had" had possession four hours. They now saw the Brothers within half a cable's length, alio aground, with up wards of 10d natives on the deck. The Trial's swivels were sow employed in aid of her musketry, and soon cleared her. Mr. Burnett and his people regained the deck of the Brothers, from whence they also had been driven, and a joint fire was kept up as long as the natives were within its reach, which did considerable execution. Mr. Bnrnett's report of the affair states, that at half past twelve o'clock, he heard a shout from the Trial, and immediately his own decks were crowded with natives who had been previously alongside his vessel ; that b e was instantly aware of the intended assault, and seizing a mus ket, shot one of the most forward. Mr. James O'Neal, mate of the vessel, and a native of New South Wales, for some time defended Mr. Burnett against the &Bias of several adversa ries, with an empty musket; he was himself attacked, and fell, overpowered by timbers. Thomas Hayes was thrown wounded into a canoe, and killed on shore. Joseph Marsden and George Hallogan, the former wounded, jumped over boat d, and were protected by a chief's wife ; the latter re joined the vessel, and.topposes Marsden, who did not return, to be still alive. William Morgan, a boy, was wounded, as was also Mr. Burnett, though not badly; and the next morn ing the two seamen who had been unfortunately killed on board the Brothers, were interred. On board the Brothers were killed Matthew Jackson, au European, and Tetia, a Fo- Mato° native; and Christopher Harper, wounded. The Sydney Gazette, among other articles, contains a narrative of a tour made by Mr. Evans, under the di. section of the Governor, in the lately explored country to the westward of the Blue Mountains : On the Lith May, 1813, lie commenced his tour, and on the 2d of Jane, finding his provisions would not enable him to proceed farther, he began to retrace his steps back to Ba t horst, where be arrived °nitre 12th June; having been absent 31 days. At a distance of about slaty miles from Bathurst, Mr. Evans discovered a number of hills, the points of which rid in perpendicular heads, from 30 to 40 feet high, of pure Erne-stone, of a misty grey colour. At this place, and also throughout the general course of the journey, kangaroos, emucs, ducks, tic. were seen in great lumbers; and the new titer, to which Mr. Evans gave the name of the Lachlan, abounds a its fish. The natives appeared more numerous than at Bathurst; but so very wild, and .ipparently so much alarmed at the sight of white men, that he could not induce them to some near, or to hold any intercourse whatever with him. At the termination of the tone, Mr. Evans saw a good level country, of a most interesting apimarance, and a very rich soil ; and lie conceit. a that there is no barrier to prevent the travelling further westwarJ to almost any extent that could Jae desired. The distance travelled by him on this occasion was 142 nieasared miles oat ; which, with digressions to the auntlitvard, made the total distance 135 miles from Bathurst. He adds, at the same time, that having taken a fliers direct line heck t•-Betlturst thee eket-by which he left it, he made the distance then only 115 miles; and he ole.sertes, that a good road may be niatlo all that length without ally considerable difficulty, there not being more than three hiUa which may sot be avoided. On Friday se'nnight, a meeting of the principal members of the University and County of Cambridge, wa..4 held at the Rolle Tavern, for the purpose of estab lishing a Saving's Bank, when several resolutions were sk , reed upon and upwards of 10001 subscribed.—The Lad of I lardwickcw as in the chair, satiated by the Vice Chancellor, the Mayor, &c. &c. The adilitionul vigilance recently exercised at Not tinghiuu HIS been productive of the most beneficial ef fects. Several persons have been taken into custody who dial hitherto thought themselves safe from molestation. But what has tended most to deter the Luddites *am their .nitragrous proceedings, is the circumstance the ro l p.dent of tlto 131ack Committee having seceded. THE NATIONAL REGISTrn. EAST INDIA HOUSE. Quarterly general court of the proprietors of East-India Sioe k was held WetNewby, at the Company's house in Lead. culiall-street. The chairman stated, the Court was assembled for the pur pose of having laid before theta the Resolntion of the Court or Directors of the preceding day, decla►ing a dividend of Li per cent. on the Company's capital stork, fur the half year commencing 6th July last and ending sth January next. On the motion being put—" That the Court do approve of the said Resolution," Mr. Lowudes ruse, and inquired how the interest of the unclaimed dividends was disposed of? The chairman answered, that na advantage was derived by any officer of the house from the unclaimed dividends; they remained in the Company's coffers, and, undoubtedly, aided their funds; but a very large reterve was always made to ' meet any demand that might occur. The Resolution was then agreed to, and the chairman in formed the proprietors that their dividends would be paid by tth January next. The chairman then submitted to the Court a motion for " allowing Mr. G. Templer, late of the Bengal civil establish moat, to return with his rank to India. On this motion a discussion of etstasiderable length took play( in consequence of the introduction of the case of a gen tleman, named Mitchell, who, Mr. K. Smith stated, had ap plied for lease to return to India idler an absence of 22 years, but was refused prratission on account of the length of the time that bad elapsed. Mr. Templer, it apperred, had been 33 years ftom India, and he (Mr. Smith) could see no reason why any partiality should be shewn to hin► more than to Mr. Mitchell. The chairman and the Hon. W. E. Elphinstoise stated, that the character of Mr. Templer, and the unmerited misfortune that had assailed him, induced the directors to recommend his Case to the proprietors. Mr. Home and Mr. R. Jackson expressed their objections *to granting permission to individuals to return to India, ex cept in extreme cases. The Resolution, aßer some observations, was agreed to, and the ballot on the return of Mr. Templer *as fixed for the Bth Jannary. The chairman then stated,that nue part of the business which the court had been made special to. consider was, a Eesoln tion of the Court of Directors, granting to Mager-General Fawcett an allow:nice of 6001. per annum for a limited per riod. The directors had, however, received private informa tion that the events. which would reader it necessary to make that allow-ince were not likely to occur; and, therefore, it was proper that the Resolution should be postponed for the present. The chairman next proposed, that u the court de approve of the Rellol4l4ioll of the Court of Directors of the 30th ult. for appointing another European to assist in the Oriental Department of die Test-India College, with a salary of 4001. per annum, and au allowance cf 1001. a year for house rent." Mr. Home entered at great length into the history of }krt.' lord College, contending that it bad not answered the end s proposed, a nd that as the youths placed there learned little else but licentiousness and immorality, it ought to be abolished. Mr. Randle Jackson felt no common anxiety to deliver his sentiments on thetabject of the Hertford College; as lie was instrumental in leading iss its establishment. When he op posed the school of Calcutta, and voted for its suppression, he did so, not because it was a school, but because it was a uni versity, and because a university was not theie an institution suited to the object to be obtained. At the sametilnethat lie did not wonder at its establishment, or that a nobleman of the most brilliant talents, and of the highest attainments, in his enthusiasm for the promotion of science and learning. of which lie was the glory, shoukl, in one of his bright visions, conceive, that the objects to be attained could be answered by It, he could not see that it could; it was not a fit institu tion to prepare the Company's servants for their duties. Young wen, provided with masters in philosophy, political economy, jurisprudence, mathematics, 'natural philotiophy, ' the law of nations, and other high branches of bunion know ledge, and stimulated to literary ambition by rewards and ho nours, could not be expected to descend from their exalted eminence of literary glory, and to leave the rostrum of decla mation to count bales, and to measure muslin,. (4 Mack). It was not proper to make young men doctors and magistrates before they acquired a knowledge of trade, or of the Com pany's concerns and interests, nor could profound learning or great eloquence be required in the counting-house. He bad another reason the opposing the college of Calcutta, in addi tion to that arising fromits unsuitableness to combine the use ful practical knowledge required in the Company's servants, with the proper kind and degree of literary attainment, and that was, that he thought the three years to be devoted to the the necessary education would be better spent at home under the eye of their parents, and among the institutions of their country, till their bodies and minds acquired strength to with stand the Influence of a new climate and of different manners, rather than be spent in India, in a climate debilitating both to their moral and physical powers; where young men of their connexions and prospects could always borrow money to gratify their vices independent of their guardians. He therefore did vote for the suppression of the college of the noble Marquis; not front its expense, but from a regard to higher interests; not from views of economy, but from views of education : and lie proposed the Hertford Establishment, with time design of accompli,hing that by it which he was convinced /Add not be attained in the other. His proposi tion of a school at home was approved of nithin the bar; but his idea of its plan was not to:lowed. The Directors acted on 1113 I epicowmation, but they destroyed, by the injudicious mode of carrying the object into effect, all advantages and benefits it was intended to produce. They should have erected a school, but they erected a university. They endowed pro fessorships of all kinds, of philosophy, of jurisprudence, of rhetoric, and of history ; they created a splendid establish mania of India seemed to have invaded England— and they prepared to send out young Grotitises and Putfim dot If. to pertiain the duties of the counting-house. The re solution which Mr. J. propo+ed, and which was agreed to, pledged the Court to ino specific establishment, but to the erection of a school, in which the young men intended for the civil service should he instructed in tl-e branches of know- ledge required in the duties of their subsequent lite, while se. the same time they were grounded in the religion of their coniiiry, acquired a veneration for its constitution, and a knowledge of its laws. He was convinced that u school esta blished in this country might have been so modelled and re gulated as to answer all the purposes that could be anticipated ruin the best system of t lineation ; communicating a suitabli and proper degree at' classical learning along with eastv.li guagc6 and literature, while at the seine time the echAris DECEMBEft enjoyed advantagr s, in point of attention to their lit old) and morals, which could net be expected to he found in India. But what did the Court do? They erected a splemiiii esta blishment; they clothed the students in the costume of Cam bridge and Oxford, making thein men at once, giving them an idea Inconsistent with their situation, inspiring them with pride and indepeudeilee, inconsistent with proper order and due subordination. He w.is surprised that these learned :tor porations did not object, through the legislature, to the mw pation of their distinctions, to the use of those relies that covered manhood and leaning, and were connected w.th so many reco:lccliOns by boys and children at school. If they could have any other feeling but emitenspt, it was true that could be expiesseil by a good-natured smile at the Aoki'. lousuess of the as. pt . . Although lie objected to the manner in which this college had been constituted, he would not vote for its alroliC ;he would only eonnsel reform ; lie would advise the Conn to retrace its steps—to deprive lite boys of their fopperies, and to treat them as buys; lie mould advise them to be placed on the mane footing with the ca dets of the military school, and their belies iuur would be equally meritorious. Mr. Lowniles took the same line of argument. The chairman observed, that the questien before the court related merely to the appointment of an additional professor, and did not embrace the geueral course of proceeding adopted at the College. The Resolution was then tarried. Mr. R. Jackson gave notice, that at a (ranee court he should move, that the Resolution of the Court of Directors for grant ing honorary medals to the officers engaged in the Nepali! war, should have a retrospective effect, so as to extend to the gallant commanders who signalised themselves in the Marhatta war. The learned gentleman afterwards took oc casion to request of the proprietors and the public, that they • would suspend their judgment en the case of Major Hart, until that gentleman had an opportunity of answeriug a letter that had been written by a gallant general (Macaulay) to • Lord Harris, in which he directly charged Major Hart with peculation. The court then adjourned. The PRINCE REGENT: ANSWER to the CITY. A Court of Common Coimrii was holden on Friday, for the parpow of taking into considerationthe mum er of his Royal Highness to the Address presented on the state of the na tion. Sir Wm. Curtis and Mr. Waithman rose stt the same time; and both persevering, it was referred to the Lord Mayor to whom the priority be longed, when his Lordship declared in favour of the worthy alderman. The hon. Baronet then moved, that the gracious Answer of his Royal Highness to the AdJress, be entered on the Journals of the Court, which having been seconded by Mr. Dixon, Mr. Waldman rove to oppose it. He said that he never • recollected such an Answer to have been placed,. en , tlse re cords of the Court. It was a reprimand to the Corporation of London for as..erting its right of petitioning the throne ; nod • it was the first step that had been taken to abolish that right. He read the answer which had been made to an Address voted DUI, conceived in terms stronger than those which had been agreed to on the late occasion, and he contra•ted the re. ply which had then been given with the present. After much explanatory observation, he concluded with moving an amend ment. Resolved, That the Answer of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent be entered upon the Journals of this Court ; at the same time this Court cannot refrain from expressing •' its surprise and regret" that at a moment of such acl.now. hedged distress and difficulty, when the nation Is labouring tinder aggravated and accumulating grievances, and when . this Court was so necessarily exercising the undoubted right of petitioning for a redress of those grievances, the Ministers of the Crown should have advised his Royal Highness to kayo returned such an answer to an incontrovertible statement of grievances and well grounded complaints. That his Majesty's Ministersin the said answer have ad. vised his Royal Highness to convey an imputation upon those who have been anxiously petitioning throughout the country• against the corruptions and abuses of the state, of attempting to irritate and mislead the people; and having also advised his Royal Highness to state, " that the severe trials they sus tain are cldetly to be a ttri bated to unavoidable causes ;" when. it is self.evident, that the present deplorable state of the " country is to be attributed to a long muse of profuse, incon siderate, and extravagant expeifilitisre of the public treasure,, sanctioned by the dependant and corrupt ►tate of Parlia ment. That it is therefore mere incumbent than ever upon the, country to persevere in their endeavours to obtain a rectrese of the numerous existing grievances, and most especially a. • ieform in the parliamentary re p resentat i on of the people.. This Court do therefore earnestly invite the respective coun ties, cities,and towns throughout the kingdom, by a general • and constitutional expression of national feeling, to endeavour 4 ; to avert impending calamities, by a timely reformation of all • abuses. Mr. Fayell, in seconding the atnendnient,. remarked that there was a time when without hesitation the people would have gone up to the throne with a remonstrance on the re ceipt of so migracious an answer. Sir W. Curtis had many objections to the amendment. He insisted that the answer of the Prince, was most gracious, • moat dignified, and that a more suitable reply could not have beta given to the Court, which had so improperly interposed, and had acted so inconsistently with the character of the City of London. Mr. Dixon would not say that it was a gracious answer. No man wished mere for reform than he did, but it musk be such a reform as was dictated by good sense and moderation. He was much surprised that such respectable characters as Mr. Hunt and the Lord Mayor, were so desirous to identify themselves with such a corrupt body as the Hume of Com mons. The speaker being called to miler by Mr. Wailliman, he begged that he might he heard with patience, as to morrow was St. 11 bonus's Day, (the election day with the Common Cotuu:11), and this might bo his last harangue in that Court. Mr. Harvey observed, that the name reasons that induced him to object to the Address on a former occasion. led him to object to . the Amendment on the pre s ent, an d i n some measure to the original motion, as he did not consider the answer a gracious one. With respect to the question of re form, he contended, tlist there wan a great deal more cor ruption in the people than in* Howie of Commons, and he would advise them to ii , !•tlit theniselsCll before they attempt ed any thing else. It could not be expected that a different answer could be given to such an Address; it entered into, subjects %tiff and milatlionnt:lle, instead of being confined In those topics to which it ought to have been restricts I. ‘llCl' a fires words from 11Ir. Slade, Mr. Wait Milan, and Mr. Dixtm, the quebtiuu 1,540 put ; cud the macadamia