The National Register. — London, England, 1817-12-15 00:00:00

Luce, such a measure were necessary. These persecu tions, niot cover, are the rewards or courageous trieudship.— GA F or Journal. ITALY. ROME, Nov. ll,—(7hatilloo, the painter (known for his de• sighs to Lucien Palmtop/tile's." Cbarletuagee' , ), . who nue. partied o - by withers trout Lucite's country-house on the Still inst. near Frascati, was released by there Ann dais after wards, on paying a ransom of 500 Roman crown', .I. Cone° is ill of a fever caused by his fright : he did not receive any bodily ill.treatmealt. The notorious robber ltarbone still roves about in the environs of Wein. and Nome, and has been several times in the convent of the Poowists on Monte t'avo, who either through tear or false humanity always let him go. He destrands,before he v ill min ender himself, foil and eutire indemnity. The Cardinal Deacon Mattel, Prince of Velotri, (who has the supreme jurisdiction tiiere,) is ne gotiating with him. The frequent conflict of the jorisilic sums baffles many a vigorous measure of the Cardinal cere tory of State. Nov. 19.—The superior talents of a young painter called Plifipo Agricola are very much admired. and he is assigned a place b,Coutioisseurs between Raphael and LK/Oat:Ili ila Vinci. A picture representing Petra:eh owl Laura ha, carried the teems:ion of this artist to the highest pitch. A preciontesonnoment has been dug .up at. ,Monte Camino, near.lieitanno.:. It represents a young Esculapios with all his attributes'. This. statue is perfectly preserved, and is I t tlichuesnproportiona. It is. attributed, oil the authority of l'ausimius, to the celebrated Greek sculptors, Galnundes and 'Scopus?. POLAND. AlcaasANi, Nov. FT.—Ou tire 1-Itli, in the clitireh of the Cris funeral service was celebrated for General Koscin.ko, Tie (Wand Duke, the A uthorities, and-a ►reat number of the iisissibitutits of the city attended. The interim• of the church MIS hung with black, arid the lights were brilliant and nume. edits. The catafalque was ornamented with military trophies, with the devices peculiar to the General, and with his por trait surrounded with alame I garland. The Bishop Goias senski performed the mass ; and M. de Niemeewit z pi unoinic ed the funeral discourse. :tll Poland deplores the loss of this defender of the liberty of his country, who, another Leo nidas, will live eternally in Polish hearts. His exploits will be consigned to onr annals as models. of patriotism. Funeral services will beperfur.ned tor him throughout the kingdom. , • VANDAMsiE.—An . article from 'Bremen, giv es a letter front Philadelphia, dated October 13, containing the following in. telligence of Vandamine who has his name engrave(' on your black board, still lives here in a very retired manner, though the journals have given out that he has departed for New Orleans. lie conceals his beautiful face behind high Venetian blinds, made for him on purpose; and if curiosity at any time makes Lim visible, he retires as soon as lie sees that lie is a subject of observation. Is he inflnenced in his solitude by au ac cusing conscience, and the knowledge that every one can bear arms—a circumstance to which this executioner has been unaccustomed' It is but due to the other Frenchmen to say, that they every where skint the monster; and against the poor, who might visit him for the hope of relict; the delica pa/ 4.4 . e....littrs shuts the door." AN IMPOSTOR.—'fhe pretended Porto nate Youth, it is now wald, is as arrant an impostor as ever existed, and the dis covery is alledged to have taken, place in time to prevent his union with a *evy worthy family. 'l'lle following particular; Lave been 'published, with a pledge of their correctness:— " Suspicion had been entertained fur some days previous to Wed nesday week ; but on that day many concurring circumstances, nu merous detected falsehoods, attended by other evidence, inducts! the gentleman in whose house he resided to question him inure closely as to his pretensions to the property he represented himself to possess. Those interrogatories he refused to answer. At seven o'clock in the evening he walked out, and never returned. On Friday the gentle man received a letter front him, dated Dover, in which lie acquainted that gentleman that he was then on his way to Calais, to take posses sion of his ehaieux en Espat, , rie ( i), leaving lawyers and heralds um pilyed on parchments, which will be for ever memorials of the extent of British faith in the year 1517. " On one occasion he invited the brother of Sir R. W. to dine with Several sorts of wine were introduced, and among them some which he tolled Sicilian wine; • the produce of one of my lucrative estates!' Mr. W. observing the name of a wine-merchant on the *eat 'of the corks, he put one of them into his pocket, and the next they called on the tradesman in Austinfriars. The wine-merchant had seen the youth, but knew nothing of his Sicilian wines. The writ was produced. •It came out of my wine cellar—it is a Floren tine vine,' exclaimed the wine.therchant. He told another trades man that he had overdrawn his banker 100,00(11. Inquiring who it wass.it was Drummond. The house of Drummond admitted that they had opened an account with him, but not for so large a SUM : he, hid deposited 1.0(101., and had out the whole except 1(11. This sum he became possesse d of, not by his own cunning, but by the indiscreet zeal of a stranger, who said, •If you have overdrawn your banker, you may be in want of a present supply, therefore allow inc to transfer to you 1,0001. from my account to your's.' •• In company, speaking one day at table, in Stanhope-street, about an eminent Portuguese notary public. *Ah ! 1 know him well,' said Crinsus; adding, 'he will make 20,000 L a-year by me.' Another proof of the magnitude of his ideas were given in the fol lowing way :—Being at the house of a merchant, he said, • Look here,' presenting a piece of paw. e t ilftVu just drawn this for the astemniodstion of the Spanish Ambassador.' It ran thus l'o the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. Pay th e D u k e of San Carlos33s,msd." tte. At the same time he recapitulaw4 the story of tho estate in Spain producing 100,0001. a year, adding, •• I am going in a few daysto take possession of it.' This statement was no sooner known than contradicted, by persons well acquainted with the affairs of that kingdom ; for they say, no person, except the Arch bishop of Toledo, has great possessions there; his Grace's revenues elo not exceed 50,0001. a year. The opulent Grandees derive their revenuer from Mexico and Peru. • " No one appears to have been more completely deceived than the Colonel who tendered the bets at Brooks's the other day, except a r es pect a bl e physician, who had actually triat:e the necessary 'Milani *ions for departure, to accompany this young Clidilataii to the Con tinent, as his travelling companion ; for which the doctor was to re ceive 10,0001. a year, as a remuneration for his ahar.doning his pro tonic's. A most respectable attorney at Newmarket he had appointed his Solicitor ; that gentleman he completely doxeived. " Numberless persons have also been dispatched to different parts of the country to make tenders fur different estates; particularly .Arundel-castle, for a hich a magnificent tender has been made. liatighton-hall also, the title to which is disputed in the Choluiondu ley family, he was willing to take with all its imperfections " Srcgreatly duped was one person (a man of grunt consideration in the city), that lie actually a as taking the necessary steps to by out two minium a year, for three years, in land, he having received in structions to that effect from our hero, who also said that he nicatt to establish 11ro gurdes de Maur, as he should be very strict in the rXVia ion of his guise. Many person a sus p ect t h at t h e b oy has r the dupe of sonic artful irv.Ti ; if so, their nefarious plans h ave been frustrated by the conduct of their agent." tt) The win on the Continent for what we call ea3tles in the ate. - THE NATIONAL RECISTEIt REVIEW OF LITERiITURE. Narra‘ineßf a Vogage ta•Nennaraland, perfumed in the .Years 1814 and 3#l 5, teak the Rm. ' • amen., MAftiarso. 1-itscipst Chasp&disk M* - South Wales. By JOHN LIDDIARD NICHOLAS, 'E;(1. 2 Vols. Bto. ,Ttte favourable report, of the two Missionaries,7,tia mentioned itt our last, and the visit of Duaterra to Port - Jackson, detertninedAr. Mariden.to lire no time in carrying into ethiet the views of the Clistrek•Mis sionary Socio 4% It. nay be: remarkult that. this.Ftos ciety, at the. saggrstista tif Marsdon,, had. selects l as Missionaries two mechanics, Mr. Hall and Mr. King, the one a shoemaker, the other an excellent carpenter, • and both men of regultr and religious habits; Mr. M. had wisely judged that moral. features,, and abstruse . religious discourses,.. were bat ill adapttil to effect any real good, as a first nstatave, amng, areal of ignorant savages; his plan was first to pave the way for the in troduction of the mechanic arts, by creating artificial wants, to which they had never been accustomed, and which, while' they awakened their own iugomity, would at the same time attach a•character of import ance to the Missionaries in the eyes of the natives.— No profession was likely to be of greater value to them than that of a carpenter ; and the shoemaker bad, in addition to his own trade, been taught, at the expense of the Society, the mode of dressing flax, one species of which grows in great abundance in New Zealand; with these men was subsequently associated a Mr. Kendall, who was to act as schoolmaster, a part he was well qualified to fill, by his mild and persuasive manners, and his strong feelings of the duties imposed by reli gion. In order to keep up a regular communication between the infant colony and Port Jackson, and to .excite the natives to eommercial habits, Mr. Marsden also purchased a vessel ; this being freighted with every thing necessary, the Missionaries, with their re spective families, Mr. M ars d en , M r . Nicholas, l)ua terra, and two' other chiefi4, with their attendants, quitted Port Jackson, on the 28th of November, 1814. rn about three weeks they were off the North Cape of New Zealand. Nothing could exceed the uniform good humour and mirth displayed by the chiefs during the voyage ; sometimes relating to their fellow passen gers their system of 'mythology, or entertaining them with their war-son g s ; and, on one occasion, Korra-korra exhibited his mode of warfare, and plan of attacking his enemies: " His gesticulations were, op this occasion, more furiously violent than ever 1 beheld them ;kV thrust out s tongue as far as it could go, tortured his countenance into all the horri ble writhings of savage grimace, stampt in the deck like some lacing fiend, and staring round him with the glare of the wildest tretizy in his eys, he brought to our view the most hideous denizen of the infernal regions. His representation of taking revenge on his enemies was truly frightful to behold, After having pursued them in every direction, and got thou' completely in his pourer, lie appealed as inflicting on them cruelties the most dreadful that can he imagined ; nor even with their death wa• his vengeance satisfied ; his fury still remained unabated, " And thrice he slew the slain." "When Capt. Seddon., the commander of a merchant yes eel, was in the Ray of Islands, he had this chief bound with ropes in his cabin, suspecting him to have stolen an auger that was missing; but Kos ra-kurra became outrageously indig nant at such treatment, and despising his fetters, instantly broke them in pieces. Ills next step was to knock down the Captain, altar, Jumping out of the cabin window, he swam to his canoe, from whence he darted a spear at the ship, and wounded one of the sailors. Seddons fired at the same in stant, but fortunately missed him, at which he was afterwards well pleased, for it appeared. on fm titer inquiry, that his sus picions were ill founded, and that this man had not been guilty of the offence which was imputed to him. Korra.kurra related the whole circumstance to us himself, accompanying his nail ation with many gestures expressive of his mode of escape and being shot at; and in all these he evinced the same filliOUS impetuosity that lie displayed in the war eabibi. While off the North Cape, the vessel was visited by several chiefs in their canoes, who, on being informed of the purport of the voyage, expressed great satisfac tion, and offered to receive any of the Missionaries among them, and afford them every protection. Of the people, Mr. Nicholas observes : " Though I had often seen New Zealanders before I ap proached their coast, I never thought it likely they could be so fine a lace of people as I now found them. In their per sons they generally ruse above the middle stature, some were even six feet and upu arils, and all their limbs were remark able for per fect sy linnet ry and great muscular strength. Their countenances, with few exceptions, were pleasing and intelli• gent, and had none of those indications of ferocity which the imagination naturally attributes to cannibals. They displayed, on the contrary, strong tokens of good 1141 sire and tender feeling, and I thought I could trace lu many of thLni, some of the finest evidences of human sympathy. Though too often ill•treated by Europeans. they spewed not the least distrust of coining among us, and I could wish to ascuibe it to any other cause than lite weir inivulse of eituiubisy." While the ship lay off Wangerosa, Mr. Marsden and ethers went on shore for the purpose of having an in terview with one of the chiefs named George; this man, like Duaterra, had served on board some English whalers, where he doubtless had been given the :Above name ; but in person as well as manners, he was the very opposite of his countryman : his o,l,lin :fla m e was unsightly, and betrayed a malignant heart ; and his aEldres3 and language when Le spoke English, had all AEC. 15, the worst characteristics of the British sailor TSV6 reasons induced Mr. M. and the author to v the chief; it.was necessary for the greater safety of the Mis. istnasisit to be on it good understatailing with him and they were anxious to ascertain tlai.flic.ts relative to the ship,Boyd, in the capture of.which George was known itmhave- had a leadini; part. His account of this dread. ,-ful transaction, was as follows, and if it can be relied Upon, athirds a terrible leamn to the commanders of - easels in, thaw• sees: the Boyd, a ship of 500 taws commanded by Capt. Thompson, bud carried out eta. vets to Botany Bay, in 1809, - whence she sailed with a numher of passengers on board, intending to touch at New 'Zealand fortnnber, on her way to Englani.— George and another new Zealander had agreed to work their passage lame from Port Jackson ; his story was as follows : " It happened, he said, however, that lie WAS taken so ill hi lose Ii during the vos age, as to be titles ly incapable of doing his duty : which the Captain slot brlivviitg to be the ease, and impaling his inability to work rather to laziness than indis position, he was threatened, insulted, and abused by ge attempted to remonstrate against this sr sere treat ment; but the (;optiiiit i lig a man or it choleric I. wip er , Ibis only exasperated him the more, abd • it was in vain that the oilier told him he was a chi( f In his twin eenntry, and ought to he treated with sonie I* , spfet, urging at the same Iliac his illness, and assuring him that this was sire only cause that presenttd him from w '11:t. enraged Captain would pay no regard. to si hat he said ' : but calling tan a cooker cookre, to common Is:am) lual limy tied up to the gang way, and dogged must weevils. This degrading treatment of the Captain tow arils him, tal.ing away all restraint from the s hi p ', c om pa n y, he was siilkieet Miring the rest of the voyage to their tuants and scurrilities, and they persecuted bin:, he said, in every possible way they could devise. " Such treatment, it will readily be snpposed, must have sunk deeply into a mind like George's, :HA the avenge he inedit a t, d was to less terrible than certain. But whether he I cSOiVed MI it during the voy age, or had afterwards &ruled the diabolical design. I with not able to discover; though I imagine lie had conceived it before he got on shore, as he told the Captain very emphatically, while be was derided by him for calling himself a chief, that he %scald flail light to be such on arriving at his country. This, however, hight Race heen said without ally other idea than to assure him of the fact, and was a tralurtil reply enough to his lauding ineredn. lily. lint a stronger Cilcunistattee than this, louts me to sup. pose that (ie•orge hail determined on his horrid purpose while he was vet on board. On their arrival at New Zealand, the Captain, induced most probably by his suggestions, ran thle ship into Wiingeroa, a harbour which I believe had never 'whim been entered by any European vesst I, and %%Inch lying in the very territory of the chief whom he bad so ill-treated, was recommended, I doubt not, to make his destin e ti on evitable. He would not acknowledge to us that lie himself suggested this harbour to the Captain as the most convenient place for him to take ill his cargo, though from his evasive answers I am fully pursnaded lie decoyed him into it. " The ship being now anchored in his own haihowr, the Captain, lie informed us, seat hint on shore ; h av i ng f i rst stripped him of every thing English he had about him, to the very clothes he had ou, which were also taken from hum ; so that lie was received by his countrymen almost in a state of perfect nudity. To these he instantly related all his hard ships, and the inhuman treatment be had received our board. While enraged at the detail, they unanimously insisted un re venge, and nothing short of the (lest: action of the Captain and the crew, and taking possession of the vessel, could satisfy their fury. This lie promised to do, and the work of slaugh ter was now about to commence, while the devoted v:ctinis temained unconscious of the ince:Hal project. " The imprudence and temerity of Captain Thompson as sided that vengeance which his miscenduct had roused, and were now displayed in too evident a manner. Never once reflecting on the character of the savage, whose favoutite passion is revenge, and nut considering that his own tyranny had provoked the most signal retaliation that could be taken lie had the rashness to leave the *hip unprotected, and taking a boat's crew vs ith him, piece sled to the shore, whet e a hot de of ontragions cannibals stood prepared for his destruction.— The duration of this dreadful tragedy was short. He hail scarcely lauded, when lie was knocked down and murdered by Tipponie ; and his sailors, unhappily sharing the same fate, where all stripped by the barbarians, who immediately ap peared dressed in the clothes of their victims, and went on to the ship to complete the carnage. Ai - saving at the ship with their revenge unsatiated,and still raging for blood, a general massacre of the remaining part of the cr e w, toget h er with all the passengers on boatel, inimediattely ensiled, and with the exception of four individnals, neither man, woman, nor child, of all that had left Port Jackson, escaped the meet vengeance of their merciless enemies. It was in vain they sought to conceal themselves; they were soon discovered with a fatal certainty, and dragged out to suffer the most ex , co instating torments. Some of the sailors 'uniting up the rig ging, with the hope that when the fury of the savages should have subsided, their own lives might be spaced, met the same rate as the rest of their unthrtutiale companions. Coining down at the request of Tippahee, who had, on that dreadful naming, come into the harbour Item the bay of Wailers, they pat themselves under his prof' etion ;aid though the old chief did all in his power to prevent their being massacred, his collets were unavailing, and they fell betote Ins eyes, the last sictims in this last acetic of blood and honor. But here I am wiling, this was not the last scene. for there was' one wore at which butnattity will shudder, as wed as the person who records it. 'these savages, not satisfied with the ven geance they had already taken, and true to their character as cannibals, feasted thentselses on the dead bodies of their victims, devout Mg the inank t d flesh tilt their inhuman appe tites were completely glutted. " The four who had escaped the el-n. 4 destiny of all the rest, consisted of a woman, two child, eat, mid the cabin bey; these except the last, had in innately clotted the search of the barbariaas till the. thirst of - Ails and men being discovered were spared, and Waled Willt some kibtlbe44.— 'Elle cabin boy having, during the ',usage, ingiati" tal him. •eil into favour with George, by serer al acts bt tt had bow the good Wittene to receive that nevvand which above ail others was the tuu•t valuable , to Min— his life'. The chief, impressed with is tfattliii I vell:lretioti .:! his kind offices, re eised Ituu no nn .itf-t .I.ollle w iiiii s' , l.lle he',ill to hint 1.01 prOtertl4.ll, :1111.1 ttt w, milt in a !robot. .11 sin, •. George, you won't klll the !" hie was answered by the niher , ohm showed that with all Lill cruelty Le was capable of gratitude, "