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Vilna r TheAtuasely Radrie.l
(anstraiajais es., POpeeirf Afsadap lair)
The cords were new far the Snit fispe removed
team their bodies, and their cages knocked dare;
the flow was laid* with plank. and artitd with
leas, loathe: they had a 'patinas room to walk in,
ad were at liberty to converse freely with each
'neer. Their meals toe were served up with neat.
tap ad decency. All there changes inspired
them with lively hopes of soon regaining their li-
te/land returning to Rossi% when the arrival of
tµovernor of Kunaechier pet an end to all their
tering dreams ; and with the exeeplioWf; he.;
is caged, their treatment, if Oat op tria Sist
Mat, was At.least marked with Algal indifference
and centavo. Their old enemy, it arms, hail
procured fresh documents, which, in the pisinds of
this it" !pus 'people, were supposed implicate
them, as well as the Russian aerostat. in the
proceeding. of Chwestodr. It is perfectly sistonish-
ieg liar many trilling circumstance% utterly nu•
connoted either with Chwesteff or GOlownin, were
breniht to bear on the supposed views of theßaii.
slam Covernnsent apinst Japan. The visit of Cap,
lain Broughton to one or the Kurile islands was
tonpled with some in of the Dutch at.,
Nangasaki respecting the sinister intentions of the
EOglish. and construed into a concerted plan with
the Russians to extend their power in the east; the
renegade Dutchmen. resident in Japan, h sire as.
seredthem that England, acting by yea, and Rua.
sia by land. had, for their ultimate object, to divide
China sad Japan between them ! This. they sail.
war corroborated by the recent appearance of No
English frigate in the bay or Nangasskl, which,
they added. could be for no other purpose than to
examine the state of the harbour and fortifications,
whious to the meditated attack, as she was cheery.
ed te take soundings.

Bt the month of March, however, the Russians
were so fir reinstated in the good opinion of the
/halo that they had permission to walk about the
town, with a guard; and in April they were retests-
eft from their prison, and removed to a private
0 welling-house. They were far however from being
easy with regard to the intentions of the Court; the
*kayo had desired them to regard the Japanese as
their brothers and countrymen; which they eon-
strued into a hint that they most make up tiwir
minds to stay there, and banish every thought of
Russia; and so powerfully did this impression op..
rate, that they bound themselves by an oath to use
every endeavour to escape; determined to perish
rather than remain in Japan. Mr. Moor however
declined entering into the confederacy. Something
eatraordinsry had been observed in the conduct of
this young man; at first be was the life of the
company; but all at once he had become gloomy
bed reserved, except with the Japanese, in whose
language he had made considerable progress. He
assured them that all his retaking resided in Ger-
many ; and he had previously informed Alexis of
kis design of entering tht Japanese service as Es.
ropean interpreter: the Russians therefore cousi.
dewed him as a dangerous person, and determined
to hostels the execution of their project; which was
to escape to the sea-shore, stige upon a boat, and
stand across to the coat of Tartary.
By the end of April they had succeeded in bur.
rowing the ground beneath the palisade's; sod, in
the middle of the night, they crept out, one by
one, leaving Miami and Moor behind. Directing
their course to the northward they ascended the
hills, the summits of which were covered with
snow. For eight nights they continued to wander
through thickets or scramble among precipitous
• rocks, in imminent danger at every step of falling
down deep ravines. In these ravines they emended
themselves by day, marking as well as they could,
'the direction of the sea-coast, towards which they
' bent their steps by night. At length they reached
:a village on the shore end found two boats, but
• they were hauled upon the beech, and they had not
strength to launch them: they therefore ;sewed on,
arid saw a beet afloat, with a tent near it. Being
• &most famished with hunger, one of the sailors
thrust his hand into the tent hoping to find some-
thing eatable, but grasped the head of a person
who was sleeping there. The moo roared out, and
the fugitives fearing that the melee would alarm the
• inhabitants, made the best of their way back to tbe
HI..

.4 Os the eighth day they observed that dry mere
surrounded by soldiers, who came up is them very
quietly, booed their heads slightly beheads their
backs, and led them toe neighbouring bootie, where
they were 'applied with mcchi, boiled rieeo rodishas
and tea. They now discovered -that. from the mo-
reest of their setting off. they had ***Orderly
- tracked every day, and .11 their nestiews watched by
. this party. Why they were not seised sootier Cap.'
. tam Golownin could not guess, unless it Mai that
the Japanese feered that throsgh desperation! they
might hove slain some of the troops, etepaimittad'
suicide. They were marched beck to iffsilewlei mit
coadtieted to the castle. The Boars eoptimakd ant
the dightest displeasure, but merely aslced"Golevra
rfi what induced them to escape, and told doffs
• *eh plan was not only very ill.contrived. leoCalso
tilltsrrorig. as. had it succeeded,. himself sod many
ashen asst have answered for it with their lives.
Mawr had, in the iaterval, need all his elideaveta
tpiirejudice the Japoneste against his compaigieas;
bet they had the satisfaction to hear from the meg.,
ref that, all circumetauces considered. hi. geed
apes* of them was mot changed; notwithitandeag
which they were seat is a new pima, and Gaols.
aim sod Chleboikelf pet into geyserite cages. Here
things went on much as usual till the Istoleth of Fe-
' broom, is the second year of their corthaeaseat,
whew* was commusiested is them as • profound
seems. suit is be made knows maid the arrival of a
rtew busing, that it- was decided arcoiset to liberate
times, The Rustier, however; had as grest,camie
‘,l felicitate dpir-( '

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returned *ids b to KosWaken sheet Om ea&
of June. ' 5 • •,, •
v't
Odr'itatime will recolteet tfintCsotain
hod then decoyed into the fort of Kollid,dhlk; mkt
matte prtiOner with -greetsl of his crew. It is at
this ;Mint Met Captain Ritual!. who was then se-
cond in Cistufisad in briard the sloop. takes op the
intercede( treitative, frith which we shall now pro.
coed.
The oncers of the Diann. perceiving thmogli
their telescopes what had hisispesred on the beach.
determined to stand closer in and attack the fort;
but finding the water too shoal to admit of their
coining mar enough for their small pieces to take
effect. and being fired at by the Japanese. they re-
tired beyond the reach of their gum. mud remained
three days in the vain hope of teaming the fate of
their companion*. Oli the second day a beidar wee
•.seen to pot off from the shore, and to throw
mot is meek with a black pennant. A boat was maw.
twice what it might contain; but the Jape.
1440 attached a rope to it. by which it was iss.
ptiverptilitly drawn back, ineeder to entice the Rm.
Mtn boot as. and thus to get poteseasion elf het.
It wee now determined to pot On shores at tht
distant and deserted village. the linen and ether
articles bituirging to the detained Akers and see•
mess. and in retorts to Okomk to lay before the
goveroment an account of their proceedings....
I immediately on their arrival, Captain Rekord set if
far lrifinsk with the intention of proceeding to
• Petersburg's. At Irkutsk he had the saii-fsetion
les find list the governor had already dispatched an
acessisid of the unfortunate transaction to the 010-
' 1.1; hot 'Alexander was then engaged in more im-
portant motto's. and had little leisure to thank of
Japan : orders. however, were slospatchrd fur the
Disuse to return in the succeeding year to Ku•
pushier, to a.certain, if poysible, the fate of Go.
lowmu mud ht. assforsuoate compel i 111 l
Captain 11,kord carried back with him a Jspo-
nese. of the name of Leonsasitio, who had been
seised by Choostuli, and six others who bad suf-
fered shipwreck on the roost of Kan►t.clatkm, 111 the
hope of exchanging thew for the seven Ilassians.
Ou reaching Kusiaselner bay. now named by them
•• The Bey of Deceit," the Ku•ssaus perceived
that a tree battery of fourteen guns had been
erected. Not a Japsnese appeared; all the build.
ings were covered with striped cloth ; rod the boats
drawn up on the shore. As Leonsaisno. in his sus
years captivity. had learned the Russian I esignage.
Capstans Rikord dictated a short letter to the go-
vernor. stating his hoeing brought back the 41/ Ape.
mese, and requesting the restoration of his country-
men ; but, this artful mass availed himself of the
*minims to write his own story, in which it was sup-
posed he had not rigidly adhered to the truth; for
when Captain Rikord asked for the copy of what
he had written. he put the paper iu Ins mouth, and
after clewing it. with a cunning and spiteful ex-
piessiou of countenance, swallowed the whole. The
original letter was then *nut by one of the Japanese,
but on his landing. the b Iteries, for the tint time.
opened open the Diem. This man returned no

Three days after a mecond ,Japanese was dis-
patched with • memorandum in the RUSSIMO lan-
guage. He came back, saying that the governor
world not receive the piper, and that the Kuriles
had thrust him out of the castle by force. Nothing
now remained but to dispatch Leonsainto, who, by
his own account, was a person of some importance
among hi. countrymen. On the following day he
returned, and taking Captain .Iteltord and Liente.
nant Rudakoff foto she cabin, mid—" they are all
dead !" Struck with horror at this account, the
first impresson was to attack the place and avenge
the murder of their comrades; hut wishing to be
fully certified of the fact. Leonsaimo was sent otter
more to obtain from the commandant a written
coufirmation of his intelligence—but he never re-
turned.

Determined not to quit the boy in this state of
uncertainty, the next step was to seize any vessel
that might be either entering or going out of the
harbour. On the second clay they succeeded in
capturing • bonier, the crew of which immediately
jumped overboard and ',moped. Next morning ■
law Japanese ship we• seen steering towards the
harbour. Oil being brought to, several of the crew
threw themselves into the sea; some of them were
picked up by the Diana's boats, some swam ashore;
and nine were drowned.

The captain woe conducted into the eibin of the
Diane; his rich yellow dress. his sabre, and other
circumstances. indicated that he was a person a
souse distinction. Roving saluted Capt. Rikord.
with greet frankness of manner, and seated himself
en • chair, he said his name was Takeytay.Kachi.
that he was pert...owner of several ships, sod that ten
belonged entirely to himself. On 'Mewing him the
letter • written by Leonsaiinn' lie immediately ex-
claimed. Captain Moor sod live Russians are
now is the city of Matrmoi." This was joyful in-
telligence; bet the year bring sow too far advanced
'te. 011180 its ea the coast, Captain Rikord determined
to return to °hawk, taking with him the Japa-
nese merchant. Os innovating this intention. ii
replied, with a coolness that astonished them all.
Very well, I stn riady ;" and being told that she
should remain with him (Rikord) while there, said
be brought beck the following year, he seemed: to
I.e.perfectly recoileiled to his destiny. It was pro•
posed to take leer Japanese out of the nasal to at.
tend en him. bet be entreated that they might not
be carried *way. me he apprehended they wiselddie
ef grief ; be was however overruled, sad 'four men
were selected for this purpose.
On beard the skip wee a Japeesee lady. who had
been the inesposelde cowponies of 'riskily tay-Kachi
ee.his voyages: &Vireos of styling the strangers. she
wee .broeght so Wird the Diaaa. but appeared
timid sad meberressed.
Clereschi or the cabin door (says Captain Rl-
herd), she wished is take se •by straw shoes. but
se lbw were «either sate use Pipets, I explanied
to berg by signs, thee tllris tinplating* of polite.
nese might be dis Prosed with. Ote,eutering the
cabin she plat:ell both hands ea lied, pith the
palm; outwards,- mid valeta' es II wag
her body. very low. .1 coodooted Jeer to a chair,
' Kochi is.- her se sit doss. Fortunately
iritnr. there iii, so hoard our
hoodoo/me woman,. the wife' a
The JOpoosie lady. mowed
4 iatredeged Sober. and they
1 misery. One met *moon
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