The National Register. — London, England, 1818-11-22 00:00:00

NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. The following are suttee further particulars of the new pro ple said to Mre been tliscossere.l he t'a Main Ross : -- i 0 Th e J.,„,, Captain y mi ,, q . 0 1 Maids ose, sailed in com p lay with Ilse Isabella and A•exasialer. froin Lerwick. and l.• trust front Captain Ross the followiaig interestitig portico- I After the last accounts ti the expedition, ma to use 25th of Jelly. whets they hid reached hit. T.. 5. . and long. O. the weather cleared; stint the variation of the compass inmeased so fast, that it became difficult to find out exactly bow the ship was steering. The sea, with the exception ill' estate jeesitergs. brief rompletely clear of other ice, they reached lat. 74 when they were unexpectedly opposed iv their northern prowess by terra .froot. Heir they suet with a hew race of t.sqiiiinaux, what by their aoonislintent6 ap peared never to have seen a ship before. At fist they were marls insist, and made signs fur the vessel* to fly au ay, think. iiaz they were huge birds of prey that had descended from the moon to destroy them. A few of the natives, however, were soon enticed en hoard, when they expressed their awe and wonder by hogging the masts, and other extravagant iiimailestations of imploration, as it to stipial ior beings ; at other times. On attentively surveying the sh;ps, they langlied immu &rat elv. were entirety iiiiintel:igiule to the E•tlitimatiix whom i:aptaiit Ross took ou t with hint, althorgli they seem to be of the faille origami, their physiognomy being similar. hut of rather a darker complexion ; iu thvii general appear. sore, language, and musters, approaching nearer to the nit tires of Kaintschatka, or the north-eastern extremity of Asia. Their mode of travelling is on sledges, drawn by dogs, and omit: of them were seen in this way, going northward. They were In possession of knives, which, it is conjecitssed, they inti•t have Routed from the iron in its natural state, and which may, perhaps, at some foto, e period, become an object of commerce with the natives of these hitherto unknown se gions. The weapons they used for killing the smaller species of whales were the horns of the sea unicorn. Here then. at thir termination of this immense bay, which, till now, has beets tapposed to communicate with the Polar Basin, an entire new • rts.e of human beings leaf been discovered ; anti the idea of rev:king the Pole, or penetrating into the Not th Pacific Ocean by Rehring's Straits, through this FirprOfed passage, is for ever at rest. The Isabella anal Alexander traversed the whole bay, having sailed tip the eastern, anal returned by the wet, ern shoe, thus proving t h #t the whole of that vilsl and noklissen (morally, from Cape Farewell to the Cape Walsing ham,of Davis, is attached to the continent of Ann-lice. After all, the traditionary story, banded down among 110 soother,' Esquimau, that there is a rapid and narrow river to the north. ward, which may communicate with the Pular Birth', is per haps founded on reality. Our navigators, its their progress round this dreary-bay, saw numerous whales and dile advan tage will nu donuts be taken of this valuable discovery by the tisluirs next season." SECOND SUPPLEMENT to the LONDON GAZETTE el Tuesday, Noma*le) 17. THURSDAY, Nov. 19. LORD CIIA3IBERLAIN'S OFFICE, Nov. Orders for the Court's going into mourning on Sunday not, the vd inst., for her late Majesty the Queen, of blessed memory, v i z . The ladies to wear black bombasins, plain muslin or long lawn linen crape hoods. shamoy shoes and gloves , and crape Luis. Undress.--Dark Norwkh crape. Tlie gentlemen to wear black cloth, without buttons on the sleeves and ?ode's, plain muslin or long liwn cravats and weepers. shamoy Shileb and gloves, crape hatbands, and black swoulainin buckles. Undreas.—Dark gray froeks. HERALDS' (701.1-EGE, Nov. 19. THE DEPVTY EARL )(mutt.% l.'s ORDER FOR A GENERAL MOURNING TOR HER LATE M tJESTY QUEEN CHARLOTTE. In pursuance of the commands of his Royal lliglinwe the Prime Re44ent. acting in the name WWI on the behail of hue hlaje-Jty. thew are to give public notice. that upon tile present melartelioly ocea,ion of the death of her late Majesty. of blessed rotatory, all persona do put themselves tow deep mourning. HENRY HOWARD MOLVNEUX-HOWARD. Deputy Earl MarchaL AN E.t.trtftfaumm.—A smart shock of an earthquake was felt in this plaee, and in a considerable distance round the town, at about 20 minutes past t welve, on Tuesday night. We have nut yet learned how far it may have extruded but We understand that it was felt with peculiar violence along the hanks of Loch Ness. The noise seems to have been greater or lest according to local circumstances: in some places it was soy hind, hi others more gentle, but et cry where a tremulous motion was, fur a few seconds, e • . dto inoveablea. The night was unc ttttt moldy serene, with clear moonlight; and while nut it breath of wind was stirring on the surface of the ground, in the higher regions of the atmosphere, the clouds were driving rapidly from swirls to worth. Lighter shocks are said to have been felt at nine in the evening of Tuesday, and at four in the morning of Wednesday. We have heard of no accident or damage from this visitation.— laveraeas Courier. Account If Shot eirtracrdinncy production of Maitre, the Rea l jinn 1.4101 b.— fhr MOSS of the curiosities of Little Tartaty ia, the Lase, of Muscovy, which grows between the two great rivets use Don and the Wolga. 't his plant is re_ vialkable lOr possessing is great portion of the 101111141 Galore. It le for this reisson called the animal plant, * also Zoo. pitiless; and iu the Rtiiiiiian language, Bona) ets.—The fruit is of the site of a gutted, or melon ; it ha. the ligore of a sheep, all the limbs of which are discoverable. II IN fastened to the tiirth by the tiavelopuit a stalk of two fret length. It 41- sets:. leans towards the glass, and the plaids that grow round it, and changes its place os much as the stmup will antler. NI hen the trust conies to stiataiity the stalk dies ; it is covered will, a hairy Skill, Inlititell like that of a 141110 lambed, and this skin serves it as a fur to defend it front the cold. It I.•nrilii•r observed that this plant never dins till it can no longer bull env grass to rsh it. The fruit sitlila a juice Irks blood, wilco it is taken ti . :/118 the stalk ; slid has ill, taste of thin. The wolf i• as fu n d tub this 1.14111.0.01 real mutton ; and the Nlitseuvites mike use of it, its order to sat prise those animals. The 'inhabitants of Darlington are now (.booting tinder a rattittil tarn of all s' test beill4 I.ssitil AL:most them, tilt tip. Ward , of 40001. for Inc • Tax, collected by the prison ay.. poSated Is, tilt C .A•11111Cf of Abe lis the year on which it ty the Depot!, l:iiitertor for the romily was al Ikirtiiigir.n, unit %revived theamto%lill of thi• property .taa floss. the Collector of it. At the sane nine ilie 3,9001. tor the Its• tome-tan was iu Mowbray uutl 0/3. bank, mhirh failed 011 the YO'lt of .1111 V, 1013. If this ilium! be put 111 eseciiildri is. Ails! the sithatotauts, it will be a grievous hat d. 61'11101ot to say AU act CI catrciac upptessiou. TIM NATIONAL REGISTER: BUO V A P.llil'E. A letter, dated St. Helena, Sept. 22, says :—" The reason assigned at Longwood for the departure hence of Geri. Goof amid, is a quarrel between him and Gen. Montholon. Gonr g soil hail hero challenged by tile latter, tint Iltionaparte for bidding them to fight, Oettrg.ind quitted. It it confidently said, Buonaparte bas recently obtained the sum of 15,0001. in dullat,; what 111.'411A this a rilzitt) hulk I'OnIIIII4VP been carriedelandestinely to L-oigw cool, is still a natter of sui prise. The disrovery of the plot has also brought to light where the whole of floonaparte's treasure is deposited. Bertrand some time since asset ted, he could at any time command a mil ion sterling. Of the three Couninis.iimers, one wily re. ownu on the island . ; those of Russia and Austria are gone to Rio to wk.: up their abode some time. Boonaparte will not admit either one of them to his presence ; the Austrian Com. inissioner, Boron de Stormer, who returned some weeks 141111:e to Ina Court, did not, duriug the long period he remained (ito the island, once see Boonaparte. This island is not healthy for a cootinned residence ; it is for many limas every day,covered with vapours and dense foga, and it doe• nut yield a sixth part of sufficient vegetable substatices fur the use of the troops awl stl'ill111:11. The inhabitants are wholly escluiled fr all 1111 , 111 , of liv e lihood ; t.o ships are allowed to remain here looger than necessary ; all supplies come from the Cape. but they are very scanty, and what fresh meat is afforded f tom BOA channel is wholly engrossed by the troops ; the ships newt got a meal Wit; and (loving the last five months they boa e had only one third bread, no cocoa. and au peas ; the deficiency is wholly made op of rice. Dvseutry, cense. quesilly. prevails much ; and all the vessels have lust many men ; the Alnegoito has lost 23 in three months, and the Conqueror has scarcely seamen etiongli on board to stook the ship. But,.notwithstaiiiiing this weak state the squadron has furnished 300 men to assist in building it new house for Boo naparte, of the most capacious dimensions. 'flue seamen, after the day's work is over, ,ai inert lied to another part oldie island, to be encamped for the night. Every ship furnishes guard bow. which row round the island, and, as they ap proach to the various points, are always challenged by the sentinels. A short none since, one of the *loops of •sur, in v ork.ing to windward of the 111111111, discovered two men in a cave on the shore ; she accordingly sent a boat, and bi ought off two Yainstork (dative') 'Negroes, who had been fishing ; and a No, it appeared, used to get to the beach fiom the top 01 the Chill by a secret but dangerous path. A new battery was consequently i ffff owliately erected ; and it was by this uaknowo outlet, it is said, that the Great Man was , sas be carried off. We are constaotly amused with stories of schooners hovering off the island ; the cruisers certainly sometimes see such, but never board them. A transport from the Cape lately passed one close, lying to, to windward, ' about 80 utiles from the island, which look no notice of her ; she might, however, have been laying, or looking ow for Spanish or Portugnese ludiamen s she was a long schooner, of 18 gone, arait apparently full of men. The troops are more healthy than the seamen are ; many casualties, how. ever t occur anioug the former—several sentinels have been lost,by falling cep the cliffs." • .)r). Asrthilrlbai 16101617191.—The following is an extract of a letter dated the ligthiest. front Liverpool :—" An interesting discovery halt been made here within these lew des, lint it is nut vet made public, as I understand a printer beer is to mike a penny of it. Yon no (Lehi saw it in the papers that Abraham Thornton; the villain who was tried (or the murder of Itlary Ashford, had embarked at this port oe board the 'llsoiteeick, for America. It is trite he did so ; but during his 11.10411litig here he became acquainted with a young WOlll4ll who is on thelown,whora he wanted tuaccompany I • abroad. lie told this young woman that soon after he had sailed. it would be known who destroyed Mary Ashford. Now it happeued a few nights before he sailed, as lie was tying in bed at her !edgings, that she Searched his pickets, took all there was in them, and left hum. It seems atter he had sailed site 'hewed a friend the papers she had taken, and ainongst the rest a letter directed to the Constable of Bir. WhighltiO. This letter the girl opened, and took it to Mr. Illarhitock, fled clerk to the magistrates, and be went to the Cesium House and computed the wilting with Thornton's there, and foetid it correspond, mid he eitissed•the gill to be sworn to the truth of her statement. Mr. Blaelatock, to whom I ant known, chewed me the letter, but would not let nte copy it ; but Thornton unequivecally declares, (so Mg, " when you receive this, I shall he upon the wide °cede) " that lie did violate the person of Mary ,tsliford, but did " not then intend .to warder her ; but that as she persisted iu saying she would expose him, he di egged her to the pit, " anti held her heels up, with her head in the water till she " was dead." And this, the wretch, saes, he con 1111 l micates for the satisfaction of the ;maple of England. This will he all made public in the Louise 's!' a few drys. The French Officer, whose arrest has beets reported, is Gen. Gout - gaud ! He was served with an ler to quit the kingdom tredve the Alien Art, and two officers were sent to enforce Inc obedience. From the eagerness with whieli he endeavoured to secure his payers, it' from no other elicitor. stance, the order may be considered a very lenient measure. He received it, however, with the ingratitude wino, his master and those ut his school show on every similar occasion. IVlkeir Mr. Capper of the Alien Office, with one assistaist, entered Outirrgend's bed room, and chewed him their auttio• city, be endeavoured to resist them. He pretended to sup pose that they cense to rob and murder I • He cubed out N I bop, oust attempted to seise a brace of pistols. After souse scuffle, this was prevented, and he was then permitted to dress himself. While Isis resistance Was supposed to be over, he went to a shatter fur his papers ; bust the Offices' tied directions to seise Skein, and a violent contest ensued for them. Being overpoweiell, he was condurted down stairs to the front parlour, where he broke several passes of glass, told the peopie its the street that he %v.'s in danger of being 1111 l rdered, and eudeav 1111 l .ed to excite a mob to iievise lir was taken in a cat riace to the lonise ut Mr. Capper ; and being told that lie would he carried forther, an offer was mad« to have his clothes brought him frosts his loolgissgs ; but ibis he declined. He was then removed, %Sill his papers, to the °dice of the Home Ovisastoient, oilers. 4kw goestions o ere post to him ; alter winos lie was seursilt its a post chaise fur Has r irb. On his antral at Rumford, toeing snorkel d•iy. and tilt " yas d lull, the 'wises were eliataged in the op, ii 'alert, where there were matsn persons ii. , 4.111151ed.1. He theu called out—''h am Genes al Gottreand liis.y ar e going to rub ant nitsr-der me.' A few miles Busher till Ile Wltaleli Its be takes. before 4 NI dgiorate. On his ar• Foal at Has owl', Inc was lint sot UO4lll the packet, which is said to have sired tot t,u1•14 ell. Birmingham golds are at thi, time telling in the United States of AIIP:tICI4 at .iu cent. wider the price kinglaud. .SHOCKING SUICIDE. For some days past, rnmonr. of a most shocking occurrence having taken place in the comity of Norilminherland have been current in this tout] ; and we are starry to state, that they have, proved In he bat too true. To our great ssirprise we have not heard it word upon the *object Irmo any of our northern correspondents, lint we believe the follow Mg parti• eo l ar ,, to b e ov a l ly corn ct : On Tilt/Oily last, two brothers of the name of Younglinshand, respectable farmers, residing at Heekley.grang, , e. hear Alnwick, were found Icing dead ill one of their own fields, with their throats cut. In the course of the afternoon, cue of them had been superin:ending th e men ploughing;, and bad given the men orders to unyoke their horses, when he was called into an adjoining field by his bro ther The men accordingly st elit home, and sonic: time having elapsed and their masters not coming home et their usual I , a search was instituted, when their bodies were in the field into whits!' the one brother bad call e d the lying within twenty yards of each other with their throat* col, anti a bloody tarot lying at the side of each. A Coro net's inquest was held on the bodies on Wednesday, and sat till tone o'clock oil Thmealay mottling, when it was adjourned. It again met on Thursday, and sat the whole of that day, and was again adjoiirned. The deceased were upwards of 60 years of age, in afflaent circumstances ) and hiseparable corns pinions. Neirciisile Chronicle. ANOTHER ACCOUNT.—On the morning of Timidity se'c• night, between nine and ten o'clock, what one of them was giving insti 'tenons to a boy ploughing in one of their fields, the oilier brother approached, and asked, " Are you ready?" Being answered in the affirmative, they left the field together. At dinner they were miwing ; but this created little alas ni, as accident or some unexpected business relative to the ferns might have occasioned their absence. Evening arrived, and they did not appear. This naturally excited tearful appre hensions ; and a servant was sent the way they had been walking; alien the dreadful discovery was made, that they a eta no longer is existence. They were lying distant from each other only a few yards, near a ditch, each having his throat cut, and a tailor near his body. A watch was also found beside one of them, front which it may be inferred that they had resolved to die at the seine moment. There was not the least appearance of scuffle, nor any room for suspicion that they had been murdered by oilier,. A Jury was summoned chat night, and continued to hold inquest adjoin nments inter. vening till Thursday night, when a verdict of /chi de se was returned. The farming sieck and utensils were then valued, and the bodies were buried at midnight on Saturday in the crass roads near the church. Unseasonable as the hour was, the intenneid was numerously attended. All seemed to allow the justice of the verdict, though all seemed to lament it. The friends of the deceased atteinpted to prove insanity, but failed entirely ; their greatest efforts being unable even to establish previous melancholy. The act appears to have been some time premeditated. A hair-dresser who wa s called before the Jury identified the razors found near th e bodies as having been brought to Into to sharpen on th e Saturday berme. This melancholy event, for which no satis factory cause hat been assigned, will long remain ist the it collection of all. THE C (BALTA.—The following particulars of the loss of the Honourable East India Company's ship, Cabalwa, ere fauns a young Aker, who was an eye witness of the meta's chitty affair, and deeply partook of the sufferings of the unfor tunate crew, as et 111111 l unmated by letter to his friend, a gentle man tat Lewes : " The commencement of our misfortunes may he dated from the ship's striking three times upon the Hove Iturk,off Bage l . ton. For the first hour after the shock, we made but little water; but the leak shortly gained upon us at least nine inches per hour, and daily increasing, it was necessary to keep the pumps constantly going from the Isle of Wight. In a short lime the crew mutinied, which, however, was quelled by the 7exansple of punishment on a few individuals. We at length arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in a tremendous gale, win u in the night efthe 22i1 of June, the leak suddenly increased to two feet per hour : every pump ou board was now inconstant action, and we Manly expected to founds,; here Captain Dalrymple determined to bear tip for Bombay, and dock the ship, when at 4 o'clock, a.m. we struck upon the rock off the small uninhabited island, ur rather sand bank of Cecgados, while running at the rate of eight knots and en Malan hour. Ii then beiog very dark, we of cutirse expected every moonlit would have been our last. We all unt of bed in o.ir shirts, not having time to think of saving airy other article.— Poor Captain Dalrymple went down by my side I was also tinder water, lon a seaman caught rue by the hair el my head, and by that meals, saved tne. I left the wreck dl/011110 (gee o'clock, when the water hail rises, to the maks hatchway, which bending very much, we expected every moment would horst tip. After the first shock we cot our 111411 and fore masts away ; a sea soon cleared the mizen, which went by the board at one dash; the scene was then truly dreadful beyond de script ion, some with broken arms, legs, or heads ; in short, some wounded in a manner too shocking to relate. I furtunateiy, with others, was thrown upon a reef of coral rocks; and :111 this state, with a skirt on only, had we to wade over pointed rocks, to gain the isl.rnd,in doing which unr feet weer site rally cut to pieces. Besides unr Captain, we lost our Seep:oll's- Ingle, *llO , lO 411 lie could to cheer me up, by assuring me he was a good swimmer, and could save himself and use ; but lie, alas! poor fellow, perished. We scratched a bole with our fingers in the sand, and bulled Min, as slid we our niifortn nate comrades all; swne half is, and half out the rock were covered sills pieces Of wreck. Providentially some sheep, pigs, iefew 1141 rels of beer.&.c. were washed ashore, and each man was allowance(' to two notices per day. We stow coo strutted a soil of tent. where eve'' , high tide washed over our sleeping place. After tieing on shore a week, we con trsv ell to rep au' the r,,ter sisfficiently to put tO sea for the Mauritius, 220 miles distant. Alter offering IIP a payer, we set sail, sri li the purser, sixth mate, and eight avainesi; it Olew a heavy gale, and the sea coastainly breaking Oyer ss-, obliged us to lade 0111 the water wills our bats. Tue define frigate now hove is, sight, at which I know , Out how to dew, ibe our feelings; we ate, drank, danced, and, :n abort, know wet what we (bd. We at length arrived Sart, at the Isle et Fiance; when I Was putuuboard the Halting-,cu the 7th of ogust, and reached Old England on the all of No veasher." has b«rn rerently adopted by more than lamely.; of wove to the hang Ild ye mutually eint•i„tril, by wurd or hum; or, ur-yrr 10 NI it.' off three hats ; hut only to adopt the rii tom of loin:him; tee bred with the right hand.- - HUI kVI 1411 ot modern rutin forts, its the Li:*ll,l4s issue d rumor Intro*, inviting 411 prison*, pas iititioilv ladtr., to iesiuutice tut the feature 411 articles of lositiun anti lusait NOV.22* 374