The Sun.
London, England, 1815-12-19 00:00:00

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Joarnat cf a Cia rnize c«'e to bilePac!fic Ocean ty Captai4,
D Ai, , D POltTili, in the United States Frigatc Essex, in the
Years 1812, 1813, and 1814, cOntiniingl4eSeriptions of th.
Cape, de Verd Islitiqls. Coasts. of traisil, Patagonia, Chili,
and Peru, :it'd of tfie Gallapagos Islands. Also, 4,f uil Ac—
count of the Washington Group of istands; the Nlanners„
, .
Customs, Dress Of the Intabitants, &e. 'tee." Illustrated
with 14 Engravings.. In 12. vols. Bvo. pp. 440, rhilailel•
p4iii. 1815.

[Contiimed:fl.otu our Paper of YesterLy.l
- We pass over the loves, and an ventures of R
I red-haired wild Irisi.man, ami a egp- per-co,oured
• • mix(-blooded on whicl► he'Tounds a saga.
•cious,eonjecture as to • the manner in which the
Pacific. Islands must have been peopled ; for
• though nature, he thinks, may have created mat
eliewhere, and may hereafter,*. perhaps, create. a
new set for the Ga.lapagos, yet-,, to people the
I4an of the Pacific, he seems to -think it ik'jost
possible:that they.maY, in the usual manner, have
• • created one, another.. ‘ll.e. shalt also pass user his
gailant exploits in captitring the a halers,,and the'
tin Ant bori zed and bi-iitalt reatment which, by hiS
own account, some of• their masters experiented•
at.his hands ; at bast we tt ill wily trespass ou the
reader's patience, .for• a- very-few words. "1 he
ease,-; he says, with which these ships (two
whalers) were
.takett.by our boats,
.gave us but a
pour. opieion of British ,valour.'' p. 160 I tit ay
be so , but, 'in a dead .calm,'..4urroutided by six
or eight boats, full of armed men, with.. a heavy 50
gun frigate within 'hail,c we really do riot see
.what
resistance a couple ortiShing vessels could properly
offer; a-Mr.do we- think that their abstaining from
furnishing Capt. Porter with a pretence for pitnring
zin another volley. of. musketry: • thourli it Might
disappoint his malice, justifies his sneer at • Bri-
tisit,valour ;'-under which, be •it
,remembered; the
tmitieSt hero himself sunk shortly after. But the
-name of Bititain inflames his rancour; and his
'head, confused at the best, becoms a mere. chaos
whenever a thought of this country crosses it.
Ilis.speech to his crew upon this glorious achieve-
ineht•may serve to illustrate our remark. Sea..
Men and Marinesl Fortune' has at length'. •snii.led
(Von as, Lecoase--we'.(l6erv. her smiles and the
lost tinte'the enabled( is to' display free trade,'
Site put into our JiandsTlinif a-million of dollars.',-.
We have nothing to object. to' tote 4)oliation ; but,
to exult in the commission of 'it Ainiter .the - flag
Of le • -;-7••• . sty- -
pecti hir, we betitwe, ;to thet, Arnerran .0 cruisers.
With, the, exception of these, the
.whole of
prizes,• we believe, were
,decoyed into his
power. • Ilaif Iris thneis.occnpied in paint iitg- and
disguising the Essex, so as to make her pass for
3n-English kris€ate. The Captains -of our• whalers
_came fearlessly under his,guits, and arc favoured
with. an invitation.oti hoard : while they - areen.
• gaged in conversatiOit, their vessels are se:cured.
:Of thispraetical joke, thotigh, eternally repeated,
we do not complain ; the evil is, that tvhilethese
on Captain Porter's as.
:•(s!l)tntirfaocilicire,:ll:ittayet
aside :eliesil!f.ri:Cligitn: et with
his (ii()ii
insidious:
jitil irsit,
caw watches for the slightest reflection on his
emintrVmen, and with all the malice of a little
..'-a rind, punishes his victims for.tkat very freedom.
, Of 'discourse which his freacherOus:encour:ageme9t
alOtte had produced'. Of one Officer thus het rayeA
and thus punished, he intittlges. his poor spite, by
lioasting; that in consequenee-of.his treatineat,
this •hang,tty Englishman was so hot»bied, that he
would have licked the last front his feet p. 186.
Captain. ['otter here makes a vast parade of the
balance against the British, occasioned by his
cruise in the Pacifie. This is stated at 5,000,000
dollars. "The estimate On which- it rests is hot a
iittig curious,: • each of the captured whalers were
worth, it seems, about 250,000 dollars--we did
not- imagine that these filing vessels' were so va-
luable—but as this makes tip but hall the amount,
2.500,000, our maritime Cocker Outs on
2,300,000 more for • the whalers which, he pre-
lok prizes would have taken from his coon.
,trymen in those seas, .had he 'hoc been before-
hand,' and cunningly secured them! lie this as iC
-may, he still reckoned without hi. host, for none
of the prizes, -No, NOT ONE, ever reached Ante-
iica, and his own- ship (a circumstance which un-
fortunately slipped Ins memory) ought to have
been 'carried to the contra side of the accoitut.

At the cipclusion•of this notable summary
of his achievements, he. pursues his tritiniph over
poOr Lord Anson, whom he had before discom-
fited, without mitigation, and ends by observing,
that he (Lord Anson) had no trophies of his suc-
cess to exhibit.' What trophies our egregious
conqueror had to display, ex6ept the scalps of a
few:murdeted•savages, ive are unable to guess.
But, with submission, Lord Anson was. not sent
to make war on whalers. ; his expedition defeated
the vast designs of Spain, and ultimately led to
the ruin of a mighty armament-1.. He captured,
too, a vessel as powerful as his own, and, haviog
rounded the world, returned in safety, and in his
own ship, with all his treasure. Captain Porter,
on the contrary, after losing half his crew, was
taken by a ship of inferior force, and owed his re-
turn to the humanity °lbis captor, who sent hira
home in a cartel ! It is impossible to pass. such
ridiculous vanity without a slide. We would not

I, The whole of his prizes, exeept one, were ree,ptored,
arul thatooe was ear:icd his van pcuplc,all true-'oioodel
Yankees,' to New South %Vales; tiilrnthePCe-she Was brought
to EAglatul, and delivered to her pwners on p.i.yruent of sat-

Ty4e.
: T Stated by Captain Porter plge. six':::On of
war, cApuyit4 S9O and ;.i.bunt u men. Our nnincl,:y
ealculai:or 14.. d i.orgoite:l,..slieti lie on,iti.,:led the loss of !tits
powerful fleet,' La:A it LIIISt cAttritintra
131.:t ILli;,1 is to 4*.: kilcSSed With a:Ai:AY tWaLI: