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i . ego ; .. .. . 'a - • .•.. • 1 . 7 •• • •r? . ....t • Tr. • . LONDON, WEDNESDAV EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1820. " The Gnus, for whisk HAMPDEN fdi in g 1 Field, and SYDNEY died on the SegoWl" . No• 4611. :KOH CRESCENT ACADEMY, BEDFORD-SQUARE. ripHE EDUCATION at this ACADEMY, coo -1 Meted by Mr. THOMAS SMITH, of the University 441Nfisburgh, will be resumed, after the Holidays, on ININDAY the 17th initial. TIIE LONDON MAGAZINE. (moue .auto'.) eRS. BALDWIN, CRADOCK, and :JOY at first think it necessary so notice publicly a did pot c h u gs skid. hasbeen broirght spinal them—very wantonly ow, to use no harsher word—of having unduly taken me Mk of their new periodical work from the Pros pero( a costemporary Hamlet. Some of their friend. Meessritave suggested, that respect for the Public re awe for all, to contradict what. they fatter their pre.ious reputation bad sufficiently pre f valid foam bele; believed. They tws prove ineontre ,,Mlldy that Ober present amlerprise, Ise song its Title, as i s m scads, and all its ogler arrangements, was Pied fits goer ed tem WIWI..a! is 111/of PRIM; '7O• N Y GENTLEMAN having 4 or Edooo, and wishing to join a SAFE and PROVITABLII ,CON CERN. may hear of one that will probably milt his views, by addressing X. Y. at the Ofßee of this Paper. NEW SOUTH WALES. FROM TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. FOREIGN orrice, JAN. H. His Royal Highness the IPrinee Regent has bow pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to appoint Anthony Barclay, Req. to be him Majesty's Commissioner for carrying Into effect the tlth and 7th APRA"' of the Treaty of Ghent, in the roots of John Ogilvy, Esq. deceased. Ceedistens tripod* the Lord Lieutenant of the County Pembroke. Royal Pembroke Ride Corps of Militta.--4anies Ma Child, Esq. to to. captain. 74°0. c at YOOOMMSO4Wirj f ritObert 1 Oh Ad; and, . to he cpain ; Ridtard'ilidkeley Mit Grail, Cleat. to lieutenant. Sprig! of . _ ageesra. Baldwin, Cradoek, sad Joy first saw the MOMNlsamit of the wort bearing a &allot Danis, they lis segimely seat to its Publishers a printed Copy of their p r , s pgitus, which had been circulated several Weeks before. /b. NW* nee is unpleasant : on their part It is accidental. lf, Weever, there be any superior elihe to the Title as wog, ps It will be considered to belong to that }loose rs carried on The Leaden Magazine for I &Star] ; a circumstance, in fact, which originally the coatlnustion of the name. -- On Osturdsy will lepablisisall, with Treaty-tour Cuts, POLITICAL LECTURE ON HEADS. 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The circumstances are briefly as follow : A-young female, named Henrietta Etehe, was isduiad by earnest professions of future marriage, to consent to an illicit connexion with a rich farmer's son, near Pease. On his parents dying, Ile failed to fnitil his promise, and his frail mistress became the wife of an other; notwithstanding which they still carried on their criminal intercourse. Henrietta, deceived in the hopes she so long entertained of partaking the fortune of her false paramour, resolved to get possession of a portion of it. To this end, she one day enticed Wing° her hushand's house, where he had scarcely taken his seat by the fire , when her husband entered settle a large knife in his band, and behind him soother man armed with a similar weapon. Thev seised him instantly, and menaced him with the fate of the unfortunate Feakles, if he did not sign two promissory notes which they presented to him. To save his life, he consented ; notwithstanding this isompliance, however, his death was still meditated, when Henrietta on her knees begged his life, which was granted, and he was compelled to take an oath of secrecy. Next day, however, he went to Caussade, and deposed M the Areurnstanees of the attack before a Justice of the Peace. The house. was taken possession of by the p.- lice, and the two notes, to the *mount of 30,000 francs, were found in the mattress of the bedding. Henrietta and the accomplice, were rendetuned to six years' imprlsonummt is Ovally Her hesbond was as* rifted, • • The following letter to the Governor of New South `Wales, from a gentleman employed in tracing to its Warn the rivet Macquarie, *ill probably prove inter esting to our readers :- 1 Pert Stephen', Nev. I, 1616. Iltn—l have the honour to inform your Excellency diet 1 arrived at this port to-day ; and circumstances tendering it necessary that Mr. Evans should proceed to Newcastle, 1 embrace the opportunity to make to your rillbeellency a brief report of the route pursued by the ulletern expedition entrusted to my direction. *My letter, dated the rid June last, will have made pikst Excellency acquainted with the sanguine hopes I ittrtained from the appearance of the river, that its lotion would f i either in interior waters, or coase- 1 lipys. When I wrote that letter to your Excellency, I l enrtainly did not anticipate the possibility that a very few Jays further travelling would lead us to its termina -1 I den as an accessible river. On the 29th of June, having traced its course without the smallest diminution or addition, about AI miles fur ther to the N. N. W. there being a slight fresh in the river, it overflowed its banks; and although we were at the distance of near three miles from it, the country was se perfectly level that the waters soon spread over the pound on which we were. We had been for some days Wore travelling over such very low ground, that the people in the boats finding the country flooded, proceed. ed slowly, a circumstance which enabled use to send them directions to return to the station we had quitted I the morning, where the ground was a little more 'berated. This spot being by no means secure, it was arranged that the horses with the provisions should re torn to the last high land we had quitted, *distance of 16 miles; and, as it appeared to me that the body of water in the river was too important to be much affected by the mere overflowing of its waters, I determined to take the large boat, and in her to endeavour to discover their point of discharge. Oa the 24 July I proceeded in the boat down the river, and in the course of the day went near 30 miles on a N.N.W. course, for ten of which there had been, strictly speaking, no land, as the flood made tke sur rounding country a perfect sea; the banks of thT river were heavily timbered ; and many large 'spaces within oar view, covered with the common reed, were also ell r circled by large trees. On the 3d, the main channel of the river was much contracted but very.deep, the banks being under water from a foot to 18 inches; the stream continued for about 20 miles on the same course as yes terday, when we lost sight of land and trees, the clian nri of the river winding through reeds, among which the water was about three feet deep, the current having the same direction as the river. It continued in this manner for near four miles more; when, without any previous change in the breadth, depth, and rapidity of the 'dream, and when 1 was sanguine in my expectations of soon entering the long desired place, it all at once eluded '7ol:nwrsnil, by sprusdiug ea 404 pieta frees 111 1 E. over the plain of tends which surrounded us, the river decreasing in depth from upwards of 20 fret to less than five feet, and flowing over a bottom of tenacious blue mud, and the current still running with nearly the same rapidity as when the water was confined within the banks of the river. This point of junction with interior waters, or where the Macquarie ceased to have the form of a river, is in latitude 30. 45. S. and longitude 147. 10. E. To assert positively that we were on the margin of the lake or sea into which this great body of water is die charged, might reasonably be deemed a conclusion that has nothing hut conjecture for its basis t bet if an opi nion may be hazarded from actual appearances, which our sobsepient route tended more strongly to confirm, feel confident we were in the immediate vicinity of an inland sea, most probably a shoal one, hod gradually decreasing, or being filled up by the immense deposi tions front the waters lowing into it from the higher lands, which, on this singular Continent, seem not to extend a few hundred miles front the sea coast, as, west ward of these bounding ranges (which, from the obser vations I hare been enabled to make, appear to me to run parallel to the direction of the coast) there is not a single bill or other eminence discoverable on this ap parentiv boundless space, those isolated points excepted, on which tee remained until the 28tis of July, the rocks and stones c posing which are a distinct species from those found ou the above ranges. 1 trust that your Excellency will believe, that, filly impressed with the great importance of the question as to the intrrior formation of this great country, I was anxiously solicitous to remove all ground for further conjecture, by the most careful observations on the Galore of the country, which, though it was to me a proof that the interior was covered with water, yet I felt it my duty to leave no measure untried which cola in any way tend to an elucidation of the 'fart. It was physically impracticable to gain the edge of these waters by making a detour round the dooded por tion of the eonatry on the S. W. side of the river, as we provei it to be a barren wet marsh, over-run with a species of polyginant, and not o ff ering a single dry spot to Which our course might be directed ; and that there was no probability of finding any in that direction 1 had a certain knowledge from the observations made during the former expedition. To circle the flooded country to the N. E. yet remained to be tried; and when on the 7th July I returned to the tents, which 1 [mod pitched on the high land before mentioned, and from whence we could see mountains at the distance of 80 miles to the eastward, the country be. tween being a perfect level, Mr. Evans was sent forward to explore the country to the N. E. that being the point on which I purposed to set forward. On the Itlth July, Mr. Evans returned, having been prevented from continuing on a N. E. course beyond two days' journey, by waters running north-easterly through high reeds, and which were most probably those of thollfacqoarie River, as during his absence it had swelled so considerably as entirely to surround us, coming within a few yards of the tent. Mr. Evans after wards proceeded more easterly, and at a distance of 50 miles from the Macquarie River, crossed another mach wider, but sot so deep, rattail% to the north ; advancing still more easterly, he went nearly to the base of the mountaintseen from the tent, and returning by a more motherly mew found the country somewhat drier, but not it) the halt more elevated. The discretionary instructions with which your fix milenty was pleased to furnish me, leaving pm at li berty es to tie coarse to be pursued by the eupedition pa its rptura to Port Jackson, I detereainri to attempt linking the sea sent on as innerly couralatelero lending along the base of th e h4/11 n tined. which I still Indulged MINI 4rt haid lle t 4 ', the margin of these, or any other hilmine wmts fl IrPitll this portion of New South Wales astican„ t me and embracing a low line of coast on eh n gteiti ow openings remained nnexamind, at easnaglipi iliat the knowledge obtained of the conatry we "elan liner de, might 'materially tend to the advantage 14 Go lony. in the erne of any communication with the in tern being discovered. We quitted this station on the 30th Jelh being , in la titude 31. 18. S. and longitude W I 31. K 4 MD r'irs, route for the coast, and on thoglitli oi Anonetaerls - i at the lofty range of mountains to *bleb our SONS had been directed. From the highest pent of this range we had the most extended prenpen: From South bthe West to North itpas one east level, neesmidiii, • the mien is extent, but yet without water being ilf"- cerned, the range of high land exhindle, to the N. E. by N. elevated points of which were dieuegnished up wards of 120 miles. From this point, in conformity to tht resolution I bad made on quitting the Macquarie River, I 'pursued a N. B. course; but after encountering numerous clifficu:- ties, from the country being an entire marsh, inter spersed with quicksands, until the 20th August, whe ,, , 7 fiodi I was surrounded by bogs, I was rsluctant!y compelled b take a more easterly course, having prac tice y proved, that the country could not be temperer.' on any point deviating from the main range of hirq which bound the interior, although partial dry portion, of level alluvial extend from their base westerly to a dis tance which I estimate to exceed 150 miles, before it is gradually lost in the waters which I am clearly con vinced corer the interior. The alteration in oar coarse more easterly, soon brought us into a very different description of country, forming a remarkable contrast to that which had so king occupied us. Numerous fine streams roaming northerly, watered a rich and beautiful c.oentty, through which we passed until the 7th of September, when we crossed the Meridian of Sydney, as also the most elevated known land in New Smith Wales, being then in latitude 31. 03. S. We were afterwards con siderably embarrassed and impeded by very lofty IDOIIII- tains. On the 20th of September we gained the sum mit of the most elevated mountains in this extensive range, and fromiwere gratified with a view of the ocean, at a dist*m fifty miles, the country beneath us being formed into an immense triangular vatic!, the base of which exteAed along the coast from the Thine Brothers on the th, to high land north of Smoky Cape. We had the further gratification to find that we were near the source of a large stream running t the sea. On descending the mountain. we followed the course of this river, increased by many acceseless, dn iil the Bth of October, when we arrived on the beach near the entrance of the port which received it, having passed over, since the Bth of July, a track of coaatry near 500 miles in extent from west to east. • This inlet is situated in latitude 31. 518.38- S. Awl longitude NI. 30. 18. East, and had been previevily soured by Captain Flanders, bet from the distance at which he was necessarily obliged to keep front the coast, he did not discover that it had a navigable en trance ; of course our most anxious enemies woodi rected to this important point ; and although the wont of a boat rendered the examination as to die depth of water in the channel incomplete, yet there reit to be at low water at least three fathoms, wi s er: a :safe though narrow entrance between the sirad.rotteri on either hand. Having ascertained thus far, and that by its means the fine country on the banks and he the neigh bourhood of the river might be of future service to the Colony, I took the liberty to name it Port Macquarie, in honour of your Excellency, as the original promoter of the expedition. Oa the 12th October we quitted Port Macquarie,.oar our coarse for Sydney. and although no charts can be more accurate in their outline and principal points than those of Captain Flinders, we soon expenenced how lit tle the best marine charts can be depended upon, to show all the inlets and openings upon an extensive line of coast; the distance his ship was generally at. front that portion of the coast we had to travel over did not allow him to perceive openings, which, though doubt less of little conseq uence to shipping, yet presented the most serious difficulties to travellers by land, and of which, if they bad been laid down in the chart, I should have hesitated to have attempted the passage, without as sistance from the sea-ward; as it is, we are indebted for our preservation, sod that of the horses, to the pro vidential discovery of a small boat on the beach, which die men with the most cheerful alacrity carried • up wards of 90 miles on their shoulders, thereby enabling Ise to overcome obstacles, otherwise insurmountable. Until within these few days 1 hoped to have had the satisfaction to. report the return of the expedition lout accident to any individual composing it, but such is the ferocious treachery of the satires along the coast to the northward, that oar utmost cireninspeotiou could not wave us from having 'one man (William Blake) savirelf oossolisd by them, at by the skilful care bestowed orb bits by Dr. Harris (who accoispaaied the expedition he a vebtateer, and so whom, upon this occasion, 'mid tbreagbaat the whole zoom of it, we are iadebted tor mach valuable assistance), I trust his recovery is on Wager doubtful. The general merit of Mr. Evans is so well known to your Excellency, that it will here be sufficient to observe, that by bis sealons attention to every point That Gould facilitate the progress of the expedition, be has endea voured to deserve a condolence of your Excellency', ap probation. Mr. elastics Fraser. the Colonial Botanist, has added seat 700 pew specimens to the already extended cata logs. of Australian plants, besides many seeds, &c. .sad is the collection and preservation be has indefatigably enJeavoured to obtain your Exec Hefty's approval of services. I confidently hope that the journal of the expeditioi will amply evince to your Excellency the exemplari praiaeworihy conduct of the men employed on it ; * and I foal the sineetrst *mar, in earnestly so kiting for them your Excellencys favoerable ennalderstion. Kesrctfully holder, that mos perusal and intrelon of the journals and thend of the espedition, that the omen I have pursued in the silocatio• of your Steel losey's instructions, will be hosourod by your u?pror ?lotion. Ibe leave to subscribe myself, with the greatest re. spect, lEr, your Excellency's 'Jost obedient aid boilable serrnit„ (Signed) J. 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