The National Register. — London, England, 1818-11-23 00:00:00

NORTII.WEST PASSAGE. The following are some Nether particulars of the new peo plellAill 10 have been discovered by Captaitt Ross "The Jane, Captain Young, of Moistrose, sailed iu com p iny with the Isabella and Alexander. from Lerwick. and I.•arrit from Captain Ross the following interesting portico. t a r; :Vier the last accounts front the expedition, op to tee 274tii ofJely, when they had reached lat. 7 and lung. 6.1. 31. the weather eleereci, and the variatiun of the compass ir ei eased so fast, Bost it heroine difficult to tioil out exactly 1.•. w the ship was steeling. The sea, with the exceptioil of sone ice-hergs. being completely clear of other ice, they reached Int. 76}, wise.. they were unexpectedly opposed in their northern progress by /erre:firma. Here they met with a new race of Esquimau, who, by their astonishments ap. peered *meer to have seen a ship before. At first they were touch aftnitl, and made signs for the vessels to By away, think_ lot they were huge birds of prey t h at had descended from toe n o un to destroy them. ♦ few of the natives, however, were sour enticed on board, whets they expressed their awe 01111 wonder by hugging the toasts, and other extravagant manifestations of imploraition, as inn superior beings; at other lees. on attentively eurvryittg the ships, they laughed immo derately, They were entirelcunintrlligiUle to the Esquimau% whom Captaiit ROSS took out with Min, althoegli they seem to he of the 1•41111' Oligia, their physiognomy being phonier. het of 'Allier a darker complexion : ht their general appear ance, language, and manners, approaching nearer to the me titres orlienitseliatka, ur the mirth-raster* extremity of Asia. mode of tiavelliug is on sledges, drawn by dogs, And some of them welt! seen hr Reis way. going northward. They were in possession of knives, whirls, it is eon jet his td, they trust have loimed from the iron in its na;151.11 state, and which nroy. perhaps, 111.1.0111 c fon. e period, become an object of coulee ree with the natives of these hitherto unknown re• g; nes. .1111' weapon. they used for killing the smaller species et whales were the 1141E11% of the sea imieorn. Here then, at the termination of this immense bay, which, till now, has been supposed to ~tone Meal,. with the Polar Basin, un entire new •r.tie of humus beinge its:. been discovered ; and the Idea of reaching the Pule, or penetrating into the North Paeitie Orean by Ilehring's Straitie tin ongli this supposed passage, is . for ever at rest. Toe Isabelle curd Alexander traversed the whole hay, having sailed up the eastern, and rettoned by the westeni situ. e, thus proving that the whole of that vast and unLolown country, from Calve Farewell to the Cape Walsing. hunt of Davis, is attached to the continent of Aimo lea. After all, the traditionary story, handed down among th southern t%gnimatix, that there is a rapid and narrow river to the north. ward, which may •ate with the Polar Basin, is per. hips founded on reality. Onr navigators, in their progress round this dreary bay, saw ituuterons u hales ; and rine ad von tage will no doubt be tekeu of thus valuable discovery by the fishers next season." SECOND SUPPLEMENT to the LONDON GAZETTE of TuesdJy, No:A:it:kr 17. THURSDAY, Nov. 19. LORD CH A NIBERLAIN'S OFFICE, NOV. 19. .... Orders for the Court's going into motwning on Sunday next, the e2a inst., for her 110.3ltuesty the Queen, of blessed rtentory, viz. The ladies to wear black bouthosius, plain muslin or long lawn from, crane hoods. Fhantoy shoes and glucts, aud crape tans. Undress.-- Dark Norwich crape. 'f he g.:titleinen to wear black cloth, widutut buttons on the sleeves poeltas. plain mu slin or loo:: lawn (Timis aml weepers, shantoy sioks and crape hatirools, and black swords and buckles. Undress.—Dark gray frocks. II b: LDS' COLLECIF.. Nov. 19. THE DEPUTY EAU. X.III3IIACS TlB A GENERAL MOURNING To a HER M Wl:9 I'e QUELN CHARLOTTE. In pitrittant.r of the commands of his local Illighne.; the Prince Re,:,cat. :main,. in the nain,! and on the behitlf of his Majesty. these ore to give public notit,: s that upon the present melancholy occas i on of the death of her late MAjeb!,, of blessed memory, all 'tenons do put thenuelee:4 into deep mulatung. HENRY HOWARD NOLYNEUX-HOWARD, Deputy Earl 31arsital. AN I RTHQUAKE. —A smart shock of an earthquake was frit in this place, and to a consiolei able distauce round the tow ti, at abont 20 minutes past twelve. on Tooesday night. We have not yet learned bow far it may have extended; but we understand that it was felt with peculiar violence along the banks of Loch Ness. The noise seems to have been greater Or ie.S4 according to local eiremustances; in sonic places it was very loud, in others wore gentle, but et cry where a tremulous motion was, ter a few seconds, communicated to moveables. The night was iincoo tttttttt oly serene, with clear moonlight ; and %%bile not a breath of wind was souring 011 the surface of the ground, in the higher regions of the atmosphere, the cl were dri• lug rapidly from south to north. Lighter sharks: are said to have urea •felt at nine in the evening of 'Tuesday,: and at tut' in the morning of Wednesday. We have heal of tiro accident or damage from this visitation.—/neernosa Courier. At-errant of that extraordinary production of .Store, the Rua, ' slam /Arab.-- I lie most es traoortsinio y of tlit , curiosities of !Atilt' Tartary is, the Lamb of Muscovy, which grows bolero" In v two great rivers the Don anti the Wolga. This plant is rt. mai kaiak tor nossessing a :neat portion of the anemia oaths. It is for this reason called the animal plain; as also Zoo it,h)tes ; and in the Russian language, Boohoo ets.—The fruit i• of the size or a gourd, or melon ; it lit 111 t• fizure of a s h„ ei ,. all the Hallos of which are diseoverable. It Is fastened to the earth by the navel. upon a stalk of two le t t It iii. mats leans towards the glass, moil the plaits ill it grow rimilil it. &HI Cha nges its place as much as the stomp will stiller. Witt.4l 114 e ii nit conies to maths ity the stalk site. ; it is covered vlUl,a hairy skin, tainted like that oh a latiili . lii•l and this slits seri...it it ass 1.111" to tlereort it t :he cold. 11 it ;of ther ohsert ed thot 111111 plain never dies till it ran ,„ longer find 101011 , 11 11. 'llll. I . lllil . )jelolS like blood, when it is taken to 3111 the stalk ; has the t :sir of 'mitten. The wolf is as fund of tbi. plant astir real mullion ; mot the Muscovites make use of it, in order to suiprise !host animals. Tl►e inhabitants of (l.ttlittztoo are nnW hhooring ander a painful idea of Ito esteitt bringis.nrd 414:4111Ist thrnt, fin n i t. atrard• of 40031. for iiicniso Tait, entlected by Ilu• prism; al pointed b too Co .s.tottcrt of lior T.l%ett. In yrar 1813. on which ti.s) the Vrithly Collretur fur the county wan ns 11111111g1 ~,,, and It etitittt the:4l4lunit, of list• lorniserly tax tints' the Collo.t.!or of it. At lilt' .. • lime Int 3,9301. for the In. eou►r't.►x aas Lalin: in Mowbray and Or.. hank. *illicit thr JOAO 'if Jat►, 181:a. If this !blew be pot in •, agiih•l ilir inhabitants, It will he a grievous lust d. r► say an !,.; •1 entreme 4: •1 TUr NATIONAL BECTSTETt 11U0N,41 1 .1117'E. A letter, dated St. Helena, Sept. 22, Jays:—" The reason assigned at Lumps owl for the departure hence of Gen, Gnus e gaud. is a quart el between him mud Den, Ilumtholou. thou gaud had been eballcng"•d by tile latter, bat Ilitunaparte for 'Miting them to fight, Gaurgitied quitted. It is confidently said, Buoitapai te has recently obtained the sum of 15,0001. ill dollars ; through what means this weighty bulk could have been carriedelatidestinely to Long.% ood, is still a matter of sill prise. Tilt' discovery of the plot has also brossglit to light where the whole of Buotiapa:te's treasure is deposited. Bertrand some time since asserted, he could ut any time COlnillaild million sterling. Of the three t: iitimissionet 5, one only re_ mains on the islastil ; those or Bessie and Austria are gone to Rio to take up their abode some time, II anal te will 110 i alfalfa either one of them to his presence ; the Austrian Com missioner. Huron de Shunter, who returned some weeks since to his Court, did not, during the long period he remained on the island, once sew llannaparte. This island is not healthy for It en:rtistited residence : it is fur many boars every day,coveredwitlo vaaours and dem& fogs, and it does not yield a sixth part of sulfieteut vegetable substances for the • lase of the tool's and seamen. The inhabitants are wildly eseladed from all means of livelihood ; uo ships are allowed to remain here longer than necessary ; all supplies come from the Cape. but they are very scanty, ■nd what fresh meat is afforded from this chrionel is wholly engrossed by the troops ; the ships never got a meal of it ; and during the last five months they have had only one third breath, no cocoa and on peas ; the deficiency is wholly made up of rice. Dvsentry, conse quently, prevails notch ; and all the Vessels have lost many melt ; the Mri.quito has lust 23 in three months, and the Comptes or has scarcely staimm I.llolloml board to work the ship. But, toot withstatoling this wreak state the squadron has fiernislied 301 noun to assist in building a new humse tin. Boo naparte, of the twist erpacious dimensions. The seamen, alter the day's work is over, ate mart heti to another part ot the island, to be eon:sinned for the sight. livery ship turnishes guard boats, which row mood the island, anti, as they ap proach to the various points, are always challenged by the sentinels. A short time since, one of the sloops of war, iu v larking to windward of the island, discovered Iwo owls in is cave on the shore ; tdiu aura, dingly scot a boat, and lit might off two Yasostork (nailer) Ncgto/s, bit . had been fishing ; and who, it appeared, used to get to the beach from the top of the COI by a secret but dangerous path. A new battery WaS Con•egnen)ly imoviliately elected ; and it was by this unknown outlet, it is said, that the Great Man was to be caroled off. %Ve are constantly amused with stories of schooners hovering off the island ; the cruisers certainly sometiuses see such, but never hoard them. A transport flout the Cape lately passed one close, lying to, to windward, about 89 miles ft 0111 the island, whirls took no notice of her ; she might, howev e r, have been laying, or looking out for Spanish or Portuguese Intliamen f she was a long schooner, or lM gums, and apparently Nil of men. The hoops are more healthy than the seauten are ; many easitalties, how ever, occur among the throster—several sentissels have been lost by falling over the cliffs." ABRAHAM THORNTON.—The following is an extract of a letter dated the WIIs bast. from Liverpool : --" An interesting discovery has been mode here within these hew days, lint it Is not yet mode public, as I understand a printer here is to stoke is penny of it. Yen no skein saw it in the papers that Abraham Thorsit ))))) the vitlain who was tried for the murder of Nlory AsliMvil, had emisas ked at this port on board the Shamrock, for Americo. It is true he did so ; tit during his reinandug here lie became acquainted with a young WOlll3ll who la Oil lilt. (OWllOl'llOlll he waisted toaccomproy I • abroad. He told this young trot:tan that soon after he load voiled, it worth! he !stems% who destroyed Mary Ashford. Now it happened a hew nights before he sailed. as he was lying j 3 lied at her lodgings, that she searched his pockets, took all there was is them, and left him. It seems alter he had soiled she showed a friend the papers she had taken, awl ontsingst the rest a letter directed to the Constable of Bir• 'Hingham. This letter the girl opened, and took it to Mr. Illeekstock, the clerk to the magistrates, and he went to the Cllalolll House and cumpoi ell the wilting with 'Fluornton•s there, and lone' it correspond, and he roused the girl to lie sworn to the truth of her statement. Mr. fllaceetock, In whim' 1 QM known, sheaved me the letter, but would not let me copy it ; hut Thornton mtt•goivorally declares, (saying, when you receive this, I shall lie upon the wide ocean) " that he slid violate the person of 31ory Ashford, but did " not then intend to istursle7 her ; but that as she persisted in saying she would expose him, he shagged her to the pit, " and held her heels sip, with her !semi to the water till she " was dead." And this, the wretch says, lie communicates for the satisfaction of the neap's, of England. This will be all mottle public in the curse of a few days. The trench (Hiker, whose arrest has been reported, is Gen. Gutogoisd ! lie was served with an I trier to quit the kingdom miller the Alien Act, and two officers were sent to enfoice his obedience. From the eagerness with which lie entleiivoured to secure his papers, if from no other circum stence, the order may be considered a very lenient measure. He received i', however, with the ingrsititude whims his master mid those of his school show on every similar occasion. When 3fr. Capper of the Alit•u Office, with one aseissant, entered Gout - good's bed room, and stewed him their &lithe • rite, be emleavonred to resist then'. Ile pretended to ',ap pose that they came to rob and mender him He called out hells, and attempted to seise a brace of pistols. After some scuffle, this Wolal prevented , tad hr Was then permitted to dress himself. While his resistance WAS supposed to be over, he went. to a drawer fur his papers; lint the Other's had direetious to seize them, and a violent contest eo•ued tot them. Reins( overpowered, hr was coudurtwd down betas to the front parlour, where he broke several pones of g loud the people in the street that he W. 13 in !.nutter of twin..., fiutrde•red, and endeaveared to excite a mob to rt acne him. tie was taken in a cat riage to the 'mese of Mr. Capper ; aid being told that he world be Cached limber, u•flt!r aas 'mule to have his clothes brought him frees his lostgiegs bin this lie 'acetified. He was abets removed, with Iris pipers, to the ogler of Pie Home Delimitate:ll, where a 'etc questimis same lint to ; after witless he was sent tali in a post for 11.si ids. On his its stsal at Rumford, being market Hay. mid tins inn yaid trill, the horses were thilllgeli in the ispsda street, *lsere there were merry pereoes vissetouled. He then ratted out—' Thieves— - tler—l ate 61 . 11t.1al Goorgand— they art• g )slg to rub ant1,1111(1er nu•.' A less mite. former on he wished to be taken 61101-t a NI Agisilgill•. On Isis ur nerd at Harwell, lie OA.; pet on im.sial the packet, whiest i. said to hoer sassed In, t.nxlieven. flivinioghom goods aie at tint time idling in tie United Stags of Aticaic4, tit 30 rye cut. tal,ier tile pica in Lug SiIOCKING SUICIDE. For some days pat • rumours of a most shocking occurrence ha% place i ii the• county of \orthunti•erland liaise been ereia i i Otis wit n ; and a o ale Riff ly to state, that the) bast proved to be but too trite. To our great surprise Wt . lows .1 a word upon the subject from any or our ourihetu com.spiiiiilraits, but we lieliese the tollouing perti• (.01MS to be oral• coo reel :--On Tole►:lay last, two brothels of the same of Younglioshand, respectable farmers, residing at Ileekley. grange, near Alnwiek, were found king dead In one of their own fields, with their throats cut. In the course of the afterboon, one of them hail been superintending the toen ploughing., wad hail given the men moires to unyoke their houbl.S. Nlllll in was called into en adjoining field by his brit. tlo cr. The men accordingly went home, and some rime ha slug elapsed awl their masters not coming home at their usual hour, a 'retch was instituted, when thei► bodies were found; in the field into which the one brother hail called the other, lying within twenty yenta of each other With their throats en'. and a bloody sitar lying at the side of each. A Cot o ner's intinest was held on the bodies on V. ednesday, and sat till one o'clock on Thuts•.tay ;owning, when it was adjourned. It a;ail, met on Thursday, and sat the whole of that day, and was again adjourned. The deceased were upwards of 00 years of age. in affloient circumstances, and inseparable cont. Neircualk C/u•oxicte. ANOTHER ACCOUNT.—On the morning. of Tuesday se'n• night, between nine and ten o'clock, while one of then' was giving instriictiuns to it boy ploughing in one of their fields, the other brother approat lied, and u.krd," Are pm ready i" Being answered in the affirmative, they left the field together. At dinner they were missing ; but this created little alarm, ' as accident or some unexpected business relative to the farm might have occasioned their a bsenre. Evening arriv e d, an d they did not appear. This naturaily excited fearhil appre hensions ; and a servant was sent the way they had been walking; when the dreadliddiscoveiy was made, that they were no longer he cid-deuce. They were lying distant from each► other only a few yards, near a ditch, each having his throat cut, and a razor near his body. A watch was also found beside one of them, from which it may be inferred that they had resolved to die et the same moment. There was not the least appearance of scuffle, nor any room (or suspieion that they had been murdered by tithes.. A Jury was stint 1111 l fled that usiglts , and continued to hold inquest adjournments inter. veiling till Thursday night, when a verdict of fiqo de Sc was returned. The lanniug stock and utensils were then valued, a nd the bodies were buried at midnight un Saturday in the cross roads near the chili - vb. Unseasonable as the•hour was, the interment was numeruit,ly attended. All scented to allow the justice of the verdict, though all seemed to lament it. The ft iends oftlieeleeeased attempted to prove insanity, but Celled entirely ; their greatest efforts being unable even to establish previous melancholy. The act appears to have been sonic time premeditated. A hair-dresser who way caded before the Jury identified the razors found near th e bodies as having been brought to him to sharpen on th e Saturday berm e. This melancholy event, for whiele no stun. f.tetory has been assigned, will lung remain in the re. collection of all. 'FRE CAB 4LVA.—ilse following particulars of the loss of the Honourable L44t India Company's ship, Cat Nara, nue front a young officer, who was an eye witness of the metal. eholy affair, and deeply partook of the sufferings of the nut mr. tunste crew, as co: 1111 l unicated by letter to his frioutf, gentle mail of Lewes : '• The commencement of our anisfurlones may be dated from the ship's strikileg three tittles upon, the Hove Rock, o r Hulo t . ton. For the first hour after the shock, we made but little wales; bus the leak shortly gained upon ass at least nine inches per hour, and doily increasing, it vsas necessary to keep the point's constantly going fs. lnt Isle of Wight. In a short time the crew mutinied, which, however, was quelled by the example of punishment oil a few individoods. We at length arrived at the Cope of Good II•ope ins tremendou s gale, when Mille night untie 22d of done, the leak soddenly increased to two feet per I : every pump Ull 110:10 it was now in (must:tot action, mid we tinnily expected to blander; here Captain Dalrymple deter, ii ill eit to bear up fur Elonaloa , anti dock the ship, wisest at .1 toselock, amt. we shuck 'spun the rock small uninhabited island, or rather sand bank of Cargados, %s fide running at the rate sit eight knots :said at 11.1 If nn hour. It then being very slat k. we of connive expected every moment would liaise been our last. %Ve all jammed out of bell its our shirts, not having time to think of saving any usher article. Poor Captain Dulaymple went down by my side; I was also smiler Witter, but a seaman caught me by the hair of soy head, Mill by that means saved me. llt ft the wreck about to else o'clock, o bets the water had risen to the main hatchway, which bending, very much, we expected every monscist would boost sip. After the first shuck we cut our amiss and fore masts away ; a sea yowl cleared the mizen, which went by the. board at one dash; the scene %vas then linty dreadful beyond dr. seription,somewillsbrokenarms,legs,orherds;lllshort,voice a omitted in a gamier too shocking to relate. I frtunately, with others, t• I t 111 as %. II ill a reef of ('oral rocks; and in this Nsitic, wii at shirt MI only, load we to wade overpointed rucks, to calls :e island, in shorn{ which our feet acne laterally cut to pieces. llesi.h I our Captain, we lust our Surgeon's at a., vs Ito 'lid i sue coidd to cheer use sip, by assailing me he vs as a good swilooner, said cools' save hints( It and oar ; but he, alas! 'boor fcil.aw, perished. We scratched a hole wise one lingers lM its. Naiad, and honied him, as did we oats' n ofurta. lEite CUilltadVS all: Mime and half out the rock were covered %A ills pieces of w teck. Providesatially some sheep, pigs, u few barrels of beer. Nc. were washed ashore, and each mats was altowanced to two ounces per day. We now con structed a sot t of twat. where every high tide washed over our steeping place. Alter Laing tut slime at week, we con to iscal to repair the cotter sudivieutly to put to so a fin the ~LsanOtos, 220 nodes distant. After tottering up a prays we set sail, via la the purser, sixth waIC, NIA eight v1'411411; it Mew a heavy gale, and the sea roost:only breaking wcr u-, oidiged •'s to lade out the water wish our loots. The Maw. eienne frigate now hose in sight, at witch I know nut how to describe our leeliosgs ; we ate, drank, danced, sod, in short, I know not what w... did. We at insult arrived safe at the Isle WTI:IIWe j when I vista wit till I/04111 ilic Hastisig., on the 711 i of August, and readied Out Lioglasad on the -tth of No. veininr." I . l ., •ohninit has been recently adopted by more than 500 familits in Magdeburg, 1.111114:11 way prove to the mm(l4. heve nintnally e n gaged, by %um of honour, , over to tal.eoli their h..is in Balutiuy ; but only to adopt the minary cu.tont of lunching the head the eight hand.-- toot hr: .et ut modern retornicrs, in the .:one town, 1148 iiiitledi CllTtliter lettero, inviting all ressons, partienlaily ladir. , to rtauuut.o ler the future all articleb of rit.shiuu cud luxury. NOV 23 1174