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but the deep pain and fulness abnnt my temples became more violent, with a tightness across my eyes.; and a reclining posture seemed to add to it. Towards mid night the pain grew insupportable, and occasioned load sighs and groans. I can compare it to nothing less than what mould arise from an iron hoop screwed to its last hold. It was a sensation unlike to any thing I ever before experienced. There was no atfertiunot the breath ing. At day light the acuteness of the pain passed into a - confused nautbnesa, and all the next day uv head was like a hurdles of lead. lin vain tried to trace it to the punch we had drank; I recollected Alr. 3luorcroft's simi lar situation, and that I hail felt It myself in A ' , MAI degree at our preceding encampment at at elevation of 12,000 feet. I was aware of the rarefaction of the atmosphere, and of the poisonons plants said (but I believe errone ously) to be the cans, of the tenuity of the sir. Was this the sole cause, we sl Id expect to find the effect more regularly present ; the Goorkalies an , l arreaPts suffered slightly, the (miner were aware of the eirennistance, but ascribed it to the influence of *plant that flourishes be neath the snow. The temperature at sun-rise ranged from n. to fP, by 3 r. sr. the thermometer had ',mooted to 49 and 13., and by evening it had fallen to 3 3 % The sun did not appear in us till S t. as, and the temperature had not then risen above one degree. Nor expecting our route to lie out of the valley of the Sutluj, anti in the hopes of expanding the view south, we re.olved to climb up the slope of the western peak, which seemed to favour the attempt. Com mencing with rock and soil mixed, the latter soon dis appeared, and left unsupportel the jutting trays rent to their centre; blocks of quartz, anti gneiss veined with quartz, lay loose. Passing these, we came to shelves of black horizontally disposed strata now leaning on each other fur support. A dyke of these appeared so threat ening, as to destroy my resolution of proceeding; but the boorkali mounted, and we followed, not, however, without reflection that we had no business there. After ascending what appeared the t fonlmitlable bar to our advance, we held on, now meeting with the *sow which lay in patches, and yielded at first slightly to the foot ; for a while we followed as much as possible the line of it, hoping in this niamorr to reach the har dened slope of the summit ; hnt this deepening with the increasing altitude, we tried the nature of the tract be neath. We still kept en, sinking as we rose ; all before us was jumble of points of rock, the space between being filled up with snow, which latterly became a treacherous guide, giving way to our knees, and ap palled ns from prozeeding. Yet I think the passage to the frozen moo iiiii it might be effected with caution, and the prospect enlarged. A series of bearings taken from either of the necks would be of vast importance to wards fixing the relative positions oof many principal points. We had risen about f o ur hu n d re d feet, and seemed level with the western wall of the pass, and had the rainy season terminated ten days earlier, we might have sneceeoleil. On the third der of our halt we resolved to see the saurce of the Pubbur, and with a barometer of unex ceptionable accuracy. and a good thermometer, we de scended to the emanating plain, crossed the streams that flowed from the pass in many rills, prior to their union with the Pubhur, and asrending steep slopes wonnsl along a grassy hank studded with rocks, and at last getting upon the ridge which encompassed the col lected fountains of the ricer, were brought into the view of a beautiful lake encircled with rock, sheeted with snow and ice, the effect produced was inexpressibly grand; it was a surface of ice coated with snow of a foot in depth, and contained the springs of the river, which emerged front beneath an arched canopy of solid ice. The cir cumference exceeded a mile, and upon its southern and eastern sides, was bounded by rocks. In the centre of the lake was a chasm of perhaps twenty feet in depth. I looked down the gap of solid ice , and 'saw the springs uf the streams whi r(red the Pubhur dripping from the mass I stood upon. Ipared along the base of the rocks, which rise with an abrupt face, cad show a strangely packed mass, not of shattered, but of wrinkled aspect, and resisting from their peculiar structure the decay of time and weather. The strata seemed vertical, and their l i wall-sided form is continuous with the chain that limits the southern side of the Talley of the Pubhur, and which is here united with the parent range, at the bend of the lake, running down parallel with the stream pre serves an elevation of between fifteen and sixteen thou-' sand feet to near Junglegh ; the nature of the ruck ap pears to bevels*, granite, and quarts, and it ha. a mast curious rusty aspect. Above the nviral portion, width is of considerable height, the rocks slant towards the summit, and upon the slope lie banks of congealed snow and ice, having a perpendicular brow of packed appearance, so notch re ambling blocks of marble and quarts that I doubted for some time of their reality. No fragments of rock lay upon the ice, or within the circle, which argues that this structure crumbles at its surface, and is not frac tured or split into shelves. Upon the expanse of it were ridges of pebbles and sand mixed, shaped into the figure of graves. The pebbles were of all varieties, not so much worn as those found upon a sea-shore, but singu larly smooth; by what action is difficult to say, for no river falls over them. The sand was exactly the same as sea sand. Upon the ice grew a solitary violet surround ed by a tuft of earth, far (ruin either bank ; how it came there, and by what means it flourished, it would he dif- ! ficult to say. It was the only living thing upon the ice, and truly might he said to . be among the Bowers that the Port describes as " -born to blush unseen, " And waste Its sweetness on the desert alr." At the exit of the stream, the barometer showed 15-200 . Iherworneter it, temperature of the water 36% depth about four inches, breadth three feet, the arch very low, but affording room for the eye to trace the current to its inaccessible source. The under surface of the sheet of ice was thawing in the form of a shower of rain, and afforded, from its extent, the greater mass of the water. Above this there was about a hundred feet of vertical side, which barred all access. A second ha i son seemed to receive its waters from the frozen banks of snow, and sent down a stream which entered at the margin of the lake, ur union of the rock, so ilea the original springs of the Pubbur and all the great rivers that flow from the snow may not inaptly be said to be on the highest peaks of the Himalaya. The open or western edge of the lake is supported by a steep face of rock, seven or eight hundred fret, rising from the valley, which it closes; and almost i tttttt tely after the escape of the stream from its icy source, it is tumbled over the precipice. The cleft passsage for its transit, is the work of the current. 'I he Pubitur falls over a vertical wall of rock from hence, and meeting with sharp points and angles in its way, it is precipi tated in a showery cascade to the valley, and after quit ting the rock of its source for a sandy bed, receives the stream of the pass, and glides in anion with it along the dell, in tortuous silver brilliancy. The rorihern bank of the lake is coated with soil, and was overspread aid, many Alpine plants, some in Hower, others running to seed ; they enlivened the gloom of perpetual winter that hung over ns, yet exhibited how transient was the season of summer at this altitude. Time route of our return was sot without considerable diffieulty ad danger, treittently trotting the paths of avalanches, and of loose masses of rock. Seine of the passages were extremely hazardous to get over, and time delay and caution necessary fur oar security brought to nearer view the eßect of those ponderosa mesas mgers THE SI iof destruction. Notwithstanding we took wbat we con eeived to be a road that would land us high upon the slope of the pass, we were brought to the grassy plain, land finding a flock of birds of novel appearance, we loitered amongst them, till sunset, without having a sin gle shot. In ascending to the tent, which we did not reach till i dark, although the perpendicular height could not have ' exceed..l 1,500 feet, I was quite exhausted. The oppres isinn u liich interrupted respiration and affected me with giddiness, together with a general lassitude and slug gishness, obliged we to rest about twenty times. ..1 slight bead-ache and throbbing in the temples was also occasioned. These, and oilier symptoms far more deci sive, strengthen the supposition that the subtilty of the atmosphere at these altitudes is the direct cause which arts in different degrees on the human constitution, pro portiou illy to the susceptibility of the individual sub jected to it. •••=ll INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF TYR WHNUERPIA MAIM Or AN OPIICZII LOST IN THE WILDS OF CAFFRARIA. Extract of a Letter front an Officer serving. with the army in CalTraria, just received in London:— " I have now been three months under canvas, exposed to most inclement weather, cut off for a long time from communication with the Colony, from the rivers being Iswollen, and deprived of the comforts of life, and al most its necessaries. On my first entering this country, I wrote a long letter, describing the alarming state of I the settlement, from the dreadful depredations and ex cesses committed by the Caffres, in a series of incursions, acrompaoieil with a general attack by their concentrated fairer. of 10,000 men, upon the military depot of tira ham's Town, on the • • • of the Colony. The small military force of Europeans opposed to the Ceres, not exceedng 2M) men, rendered the event at first extremely dubious. The Caffres made a tremendous charge from an elevated height with a hideous yell, and had they not suddenly stopped on approaching us, must, in spite of every effort on our part, have overwhelmed and destroyed every viol. Divine Providence, ever watchful, interposes' at this critical juncture. The Fatties stood motionless, allowing our troops to mow them down by hundreds, till, panic-struck with viewing the dreadful effects of musketry, and field ordnance, they retired in a body, after three hours and a half conflict, leaving about .(NI killed on the field, and as many snore wounded. The charge of the Caffres was firm, regularly conducted, and with a rapidity of toot almost incredible. Their ins =ruse force and warlike appearance was calculated to create apprehension in the must undaunted mini, and the idea of neither giving quarter to man, woman, or child, or taking it themselves, rendered the affair one of the utmost desperation, revolting in the extreme to a civil ised and enlightened mind. Fur myself, I viewed the misguided savages with an rye of comtniseration• • • 6 . The predictions of their Chiefs that we were to fall into their power by a miracle, led them to the act which they have since been feeling the ill effects of having engaged in. Works were thrown up for the pro tection of Graham's Town, and the different posts. prior to entering Caffravia with a hostile force of two thousand men, and which took place in the month of .duly last; since that period we have continued Ira ! vetoing the country in all directions, driving the savages before us, but never bringing them to an engagement. The Calfres have every where deserted their homes, leaving their women and children to their fate, and whs., in many instances, have lost their lives from our not being able to distinguish them from men, the costume of dress being so much the same. 31y employment who such as obliged me to be detached with a few followers I continually, and often alone, and in one instance, early In the :th of August, 1 rode out by myself to dies- i cover the course of a river. In my anxiety for the ob ject in pursuit, I lost sight of the closing of the day. My compass failed in Firing me information of my di rection : I sought in vain for the track I hail taken, be came benighted, lost my way, and found myself destitute in as enemy's country, without a chance of discovering a road to any spot, and surrounded by elephants, lions, tigers, wolves, and savages. Picture to yourself my situation ; hot attend, and it will become still more de plorable. Finding myself benighted, I got off my horse, took the bridle and saddle, laid it by my side, and con cealed tarwlf ender a thick hush, securing my horse to a tree at band. As night spread her sable mantle around, the roaring of lions, and cry of elephants alarmed im.. I haul but a brace of pistols to defend myself with. After remaining in the bush for two boors, a herd of a dosen elephants approached, frightened my horse, who broke loose, ran away, and same immediately to the spot where I was for safety. I climbed the highest tree around me, but could not ascend i beyond the reach of these monstrous beasts, who ar ranged themselves around me in procession. By the union, which had just risen, I discovered their move ments to Is; playful, which gave sue confillen..e, and after looking at me with the insignificance I deserved, they retired in tlisgnst, to my great joy. In vain, however, did I look for my horse; be I gone never to return. The apprehension of a second visit from wild beasts obliged Me to keep my station in the tree for snore time, till fancying I heard the sound of bugles from the camp, I descended, took my pistols and saddle with me, and proceeded in the direction I ple' d the sound came from. Hope. ever flattering, led me fir t i i one direction then in another, during the whole night, till despair at last took possession of ruy breast ; I fired both my pistols at two o'clock in the morning for signals, but without ef fect. Exhausted with fatigue I threw down my saddle, and again took shelter under a thicket. In this ililemieia. I fervently invoked the Almighty for protection, for I', felt that without his aid I must inevitably perish. At day-break a gleam of hope dawned on me, and eagerly did I seek to discover in the features of the country some point to which I might direct my steps. Fruitless as my endeavours were the preceding night, so were they on the succeeding morning. I rose from env concealment in the utmost anguish of min I: ere I had paced a doxen yards a tremendous large lion present ed himself to my view, conchant, under a hush ; I passed within a yard of his tail, so immediately did I row upon him; bat he stirred not, and, if he saw tee, lie was rezarilless of Isis prey. Never rose the sun more majestically grand than on this eventful day. 0 Gal! it was then I artcnowledged thy power snprenie ! Placing myself under the Almighty protection, 1 beat my steps, as it were by instinct, in a direction which brought me to a river. Here I paused on the banks to reflect on nsv condition. The alternative presented was, either to foi. low its course, which might bring me to a known point, whence I might enter the colony, or else to remain where I was, with expectation of 'being picked up by a party sent from the camp in search of me. The former offered so many obstacles that I gave up the idea as to tally impracticable in such a countrw, and without food: the latter I embraced, though, had I possessed my pistol loaded at the time, my state of mini' was such that its distraetion might have driven me to the rhshest and basest of a , ts. Four hours elapsed iii this state. I saw Cat yes i n front their view - I became faint for want of food, which had not entered my lips for thirty-six hours, and was at lacerated by thorns, bcc. that I began to think of a fu ture state as near at hand. Towards mid-day, howe'rer. ,I was roused b 1 the soared of bugles; I lispned, and foamd it was not imaginary, as before, hat at a great- Ih- TESMAN. distance. How to make myself heard I knew not, and having lost my horse, I could not proceed with any dis patch towards the sound. I threw away the incuns hrance of my pistols and part of my dress, and made fur the highest and must clear point of land near me. Perched upon this I again listened, but the sound re tired. I left my post and ran at my utmost speed ; found I approached, and gained confidence and spirits. After two hours I could make myself heard, was answered, and at length discovered . by a party, which had all night been looking for me, and were returning, giving up the pursuit. You may easily judge my joy was un bounded; I cried like a child, so strong were my feel ings acted upon. Being congratulated on inv wonder ful escape, by my deliverers, I - was placed on horseback and conducted to the camp, where I had been given up, and an my arrival being announced, it was asked if not my remains, rather than a living carcase, approached.— Thus ends my tale. I readily parted with my horse, saddle, bridle, pistols, and clothes, for the security of my person ; therefore, though lost to me for ever, it would be sinful fur me to repine. The distance at which I was found was ten miles from the camp, and it moved the same day; another half hour, and toy doom hail been sealed." INSURRECTIO.Y IN 81 ) .11.Y. -41.-- The following letter, unquestionably from a per sonage ofdistinctiun, by its appearance in a certain Ministerial journal, proves, in contradiction to the assertion of the Journal de Paris, that all is not smoke in the military fermentation at Cadiz. There is undoubtedly more or less of fire in it, and the combustion is not likely to be stilled. "31susito, JAN. order that you may be well acquainted with what is going forward in Andalusia, I must inform von, that the revolted regiments of the E peditionary Artily concentrated themselves in the Isla of Leon, and after having remained there some time, made two attempts to surprise IA Corte/lure de St. Fer nando, in which they failed, and they were convinced that it was not easy to take that fortress, which was in it respectable state of defence. Hut in the night, front the 11th to the 12th, they had succeeded in taking the l'aracca, the Royalist troops having been obliged to abandon that point, in order to save the important arse nal from the destruction menaced by the Insurgents, who had prepared red-hot halls to attack it. " The best spirit reigned at raffia, and the inhabi tants contribute with their persons and property to the defence of the place; nor has the Governor neglected any precautionary measures to secure it from the assaults that uiihrht he attempted by the Insurgents in despair. General Freyre,Captai ntieneral of Andalusia, after having reinforced the garrison of Cadiz with a regiment of in fantry, had collected, between Seville and Utrera, 12,000 infantry and 2,5110 cavalry ; and on the 20th January bad commenced his march against the muti neers, who must necessarily be compelled to yield to superior forc e, _ as, in consequence of desertion, they are reduced to about 2,000 men. "The greatest tranoptillity remains in this capital (Madrid), as well as in all the provinces in the kingdom. The event in Andalusia will have produced the effect of uniting a 3 classes in defence of their King and country.... The following are the Proclamationl ti which we M inded yesterday, in onr observations on the Spanish In surrection : PROCLAMATION OF ORNRRAI. lIPIRTRR, TO TIM! •RMT ASSEMBLED V:IDER HIS ORDERS AT 'STILLS. " Soldiers, the rights of our Sovereign, beloved, ac knowledged. and respected by the whole nation, have been set at tonight by factions men, who, erecting them selves into arbiters of the general destiny and will, wish to re-establish institutions, under which Spaniards could obtain nu happiness, as experience has sufficiently proved. The Throne, the whole nation, have unanimously pro scribed them. I place myself with pleasure at your head, in order to endeavour to undeceive and bring back those who have suffered themselves to be seduced, and to stifle their projects. Your fidelity encourages me, and the confidence which I have in your tired valour, in• duces toe to hope, that shortly I shall have the delightful satisfaction of assuring the King that his sacred rights have been maintained by the efforts of an army, which neither gold, nor promises, nor seduction, have been able to turn aside from the path of honour. Soldiers! serve as the model to armies : I ant sufficiently rewarded by the pleasure of commanding you, and the King will doubtless generously acknowleage your fidelity and constancy. (Signed) MA:suat. Fame." 6 ' Seville, Jan. 20, l&J0." FROOLANIATIOK OF TOO COMMANDCR-IN-CHIEF OF Till CAMP OF GIIIIRALTIR. SPANIARMI--01firers and Soldiers of a part of the Corps of the Itspeditionarr Army! Seduced by a hand ful of factions men who have ahandoned themselves to the first impulse of their corrupted hearts, have you for a single moment reflected on the consequences which must necessarily follow your disobedience to a well-be loved Sovereign, fur whom you have fought with so much valour and so much success, your unexampled revolt, and the scandalous arrest of your Ueneral in Chief? "'These factions men have endeavonred to persuade bo• that the whole Spanish army, and the nation, em race your criminal views; but you must have already discovered how chimerical is such a hope, since the major part of your own army, awl all Spaniards who glory in the name, whether soldiers or citizens, remain firm in that sentiment of honour, of respect, of attach meld, and of fidelity, which they owe and profess to wards the King our sovereign, and the Constituted Au • tborities, in his name. The troops of all arms which i conduct against von, and the battalions of regiments of the Prince, and of America, who are to join them, hope tbat they will not be under the hard necessity of shedding your blood, to bring yon hack to reason ; bnt they are faithful and brave, and should that he inevitable, they will shed their own with yours, in order to put you down, and prove their fidelity to the Sovereign whom they have replaced on the Throne of his fathers. " One way alone remains by which you may lessen your great fault, and obtain that pardon which the ge nerous Monarch whom you have offended, is ever ready to accord. 1 offer to intercede in favour of all the officers and soldiers, w•ho may immediately present themselves at my head-quarters, or at any of the points occupied by my troops; they will be received there as misguided men, flying from sedition—excepting always the Chief, or author, of the conspiracy. 66 Profit, then, of the Jay of clemency. Dread the terrible chastisement which awaits you, if you persist in your error. (Signed) " CrDONNZL." " Ileddywarterr. Alesla de toe Getzales, Jan. 9. MU. PROCLAMATION or TOR GO/[KNOB OW CAMR. " Heroic Inhabitants OlCaditT,feithfui SUbjec ts of Ferdinand the Seventh, rejoice! Ton have already companions In loyalty and fidelity! Rea.: the Procla mation which the Commandant-Henan! of the Camp of ttibraltar, Don Joseph O'Donnel, has published to con found the seditious !—.See with what generosity he offers to pardon, in the name of the most clement of Monarchs, thole who will snbmit to him. Can von longer have a doubts( /our duties? Can you still fume any fears that this aim. nosaber of misguided persons cup be nimble .~. .:i .. -4.. - S. • of obtaining any triumph whatevet.oretrdar our heroism? l'ndeerive. yourselves. This b rao l timid was already, on the 9th, at Alvala de lo t 6,4 before lone he will he with us : and we shall re m gether thanks to the Ono of armies, for drlireei lf from the fury of the perverse, and restoring p i arnono.st us._ " ALoNzo Noun:Gun V ALia. (Sictied) •• Cadiz, 11th Jon. ISO. Id .1 ►RR. DI. R. I Dublin 0 Waterford I Guernsey and Jersey flottesburgh U Hamburg,' LS. A1..0 U Holland . ........... 0 Flanders . ........ 0 France ..... I Lisbon 0 Malta ........ PRICE OF STOCKS Thlll Rink Stork 3 per Cent. Red. 0131 3 per Cent. C 0.,. Milli 3A per Cent. nii 4 prr Cents. $7444 3 per Ct.7ti .101110211014101 Long Ann. IS 1-16 3-6 Imp. 3 per Cent. Ann, 674 DAY AT O'4 Wadi India Stork Dittnilonds 11s, Did Annuities ON Es. Rills. M. is . I. k Ditto Coon. °ntions e plc con. for Ae. Lott. Tickets 413 k tie eetattilinatt. LONDON: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1920. Charleston Papers arrived this morning, roya l , later, to the 7th ho. [Piton Tar BOSTON PATRIOT.] By a late commercial letter front Liverpool, wel t " that the import of American cotton during them, ' year has been much less than the consumption : ill estimated that the stock of American cotton in Ea* at the close of this year, will be 20,000 bales lest last year ; the consumption of this article this stated to exceed in quantity that of any former sink period. This is accounted for by the exports:ha l yarns to the Continent. An opinion is entertain/4th cotton will obtain higher prices the coming year flail has sustained the last. The exportation of pai l renders them of ready sale. Flour and wheat are sought after, and prices are advancing, as an *pia. entertained that the ports will be opened before tie harvest. IMPORTS OF COTTON INTO LIVERPOOL DI:11NC Tai t{ 10 MONTHS OF 1519. BOPS. From the United States - - - Brazils and Portugal - - - b 8,711 Demerara and Berbire - - - 9.217 Barhadoes Otierr West India Islands - - -5,111 S Franee, Spain, and Holland, none. Ireland East Indies .. 59,e4 Fro:n other parts • 3JI, Being 31,390 bales less than the import of la the same period of tide. [PROM TISK CIIARIJISTON PANLA Or THE elr COLONIZATION.—The Committee appointed it A meeting, to take measures fur the colonies:la of free Blacks, have chartered the ship Eliza, thick at the foot of Liberty -street, to carry out mei as willing to embark ; there are already 30 person, sap to go from here, 50 from Philadelphia, and 70 frail ginia; they contemplate fixing the establishment i place called Sherborough, 100 miles south of Ss Leone, in a fine climate and fruitful soil. A shish will convey them. This plan requires the assistass all persons interested in the project. On the affairs of Spain, not having any ready source to look to for information, we rally resort to the French journals ; as a wind nor tide can hinder the direct lion between the two countries. In those however, we search in vain for correct ino rumour and contradictory reports aro all they give. Nothing absolutely official is found in th Indeed, the Editors of those journals complais, their part, that the Madrid Gazelle, which NI to speak of what so eminently concerns that' kingdom, says not a word of the important poi events, but entertains its readers with loeilli graphs from Constantinople, and its tribitsrill geney, Algiers, whose trifling affairs, wig scarcely concern the smallest Mediterraneas SO occupy its most conspicuous columns. eine 41 last, we have scarcely any thing more °fail' ginal complexion. If, indeed, The Constitutist is to be relied on, the gates of Cadiz has! opened to the Insurgents, but that the held the inhabitants, as to the mischief wbisiod follow the entry of troops now freed from 11 1 9 controul, was allayed. We are not informed! the point as to the ease of the tardiness er ance of the Royal General's marching uPos insurrectionary army ; but, we have no deati, arises from a consciousness, a conviction tbit/ Royalist troops are impregnated with the • leaven of CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOM. It has been said by Tory Generals ald Military Martinets, that soldiers should be machines, and never assume the cowers§ thinking for themselves. The Spanish Wil have mutinied against these base maximk• ' as against orders to embark on worse than II lorn hope; and this example will, we trod. l warning to all those Governments so iwril l with tyranny or despotism as to imagine, thi means of the sword or bayonet mankind el ways to be kept down in abject bondage. The Ktso every day improves in basi. therefore we shall soon become ver7 11111.1 know what be will do with regard to d 1411.1 condition of nation, and the unpoPalidl 41 ~- 441 /' Eli loz l'iln il e r Pre tot tom the nom talc the e : 11 14: •the sat so I 11111 rk, trot 9 011 oor It ii and may the 1 I spill prisl *et It I say Pati 'LK d rid of IL sit bek Ise, Per IN;i ItA 6 a ••••.111