The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-26 00:00:00

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In our last we alluded briedy to the unfavour.:
able accounts regarding the emigration to Po)als,
obtained by the arrital of the Catherine, SWAN,
of this port, from Honduras 7 ou Tuesday/ after a
short passage. As We 'hie taken considerable
pains to infOrm ourselvei on the subject, we cate.
municate the following particulars with unhesi-
tating confidence of their accuracy in every ma:
terial point of detail :

Eatly in the yeti, the Honduras Packet; the first vetiel, We
believe, which carried out settlers to Poyais, arrived at Black
River with 60 persons, and was soon afterwards fellowed by the
kinnersky &tale, Which sailed front Leith with IGO etnigrAnts,
consisting of various descriptions of artisan; and a few agrietia
turists. The people by the latter verael, we understand. were
chiefly conveyed out at the e%pence of Sir Gregor IWOregor,
and were to be maintained r from the suites sent out in die ship
with there, for one year, during which they Were to be employ_.
ed in clearing the ground' of timber, and erecting houses at St.
Joseph's, the capital of Poyais, which as yet existed only in,
name. Whether these poor people generally .onderstood the
'nature of the undertaking befnrb setting out, is dotibtful; Seine
of them, it appears, did not, as they expected to find a country,
already populous and cultivated., and where they would ob-
tain abundance of employment in their respective avocations.
Thei# disappointment was, therefore, proportionably aggra-
vated, when they found themselves landed on the margire.
of a Wilderness, and were set to work in clearing yround for,
erecting habitations, exposed by day to the scorching rigotirs
of a climate to which they were altogether unaucustomed, and
unsheltered front the dews of night in their hours of repose.—
Of the- previous emigration by the Honduras Packet, the
greater. part had dispersed op the ebuntry, and those who re.,
unlined had made little pmgress in establishing themselves
when the Kinner,ley Castle arrived, the Person whom Sir Gre-
gor liffiregor rent out, in the Capacity of Governoe, haring
gbne in the prosecution olsoine private object to a diattuice..
Tints the want of direction combine&N,itkother circumstances:
to dishearten the emigrants; and to cause general discontent.—
In a very few days aftey' their arrival, tire of them, one of
whom was Married, end carried his wife with him, formed the
desperate resolOtion of.putting to sea in a small boat, with an
intention of endeterouring to gain the port of Belize in Hone
duras ; in the execution of the attempt they endured dread
ful hardships front the exposure, and front their scanty sup-
ply of provisions and water; the husband of the female'
above mentioned perished het* her eyes, anti the survivors
reached the port, after being several days at sea, in the most
exhausted condition. A person of tl4hetne of Halley, a boot-
maker of Edinburgh, who had gone out with the intention of
cultivating land and of ultinuttely settling
,with hie tinnily, not
long efter cis arrival, we understand, in despair, committed
suicide. In short, whatever mil have been the repreitentations
seaborne by thew in the. direct employment of M'Ciregor„ or
otherwise influenced by sinister motives, to the great majtalty
nothing but adverse circumstances appeared; and sickitthe of
a malignant kind havin.g shown itself, they abandoned them.:
selves to despair. In this state they were found by Mr. Bennet;
the chief magistrate of Belize, who went himself in the schooner
Met mean Eagle,. and brought offline hundred and six persons,
which was us many as she could carry. Captain Swan, of
the Catherine, reports that on going into Honduras he.
fell in with this vessel, and supplied her whit water, of
which she was much in want. Ile was, of course, witness to
the distressing state in which the emigrants then were, and
had afterwards, during the stay of his ship in port, elm&
ant opportunities of learning their situation. The greater
part who had no means of piogiding fur themselves, were
placed in the hospital; and liere nothing could exceed the dis.
interested humanity of the inhabitant:3'6f Bate, 'who liberally
administered to the wants of the sick,' supplied the destitute
with the Incises of suppdil, and found employment for those
aide to work. The terthire already mentioned' ' who has'conie
home in the Catherine, • was, until a feu' day's before her de.
parture, engaged in attending the sick in the hospital, and
gives a melancholy picture of the ravages made by the fever
which has sated so ninny of these unfortunate people, lbr
Some time after their arrival, several &ohs occurring daily,
and atom, who Were aurniminting the malady net/la:ring by
very slow degrees. It watt' about the 12t/t of May that the
schooner arrived with the above-mefitioned nuMber ; but
during Captain Swain's stay site had returned :gain, and
brought away 9il reore, leaving only six persons behind to take
charge of the remaining effects of the emigrants, and fur those
she had also gone back, before the CuthiTin, sailed on her
homeward voyage. As a letter from Poyala,' dated the 12th of
April, which was published some dote a,m, Mentioned that
the emigrants then amoubted to 220 individuals, a total Oran."
tionment of the Settlement mum have taken Mace by those sue-
eeesive. desertions. (Inventor Litill; as already started, had left
it with all his moveable property on the second return Of the
schooner; and Capt. Swan mentionsheving seen several respect.,
nide individuals at Belize, who lord arrived there from Poyals
in particular, a Mr. Westeott, of Bristol, and a banker of the
name of Ontelyer. A Mr. Kennedy, a teacher, and his Wife,
the former in had health; one liantlyside, tarnillwright, also in
a sickly state; and a yOung man, named Pickett, a clerk, and
Who recently sent home a very flattering account of the Poyaia
territory, ate likewise amongst those Whom lie met with at Be.;
lire. Bat as many of the emigrants wilt no doubt have avail-
ed themselves of the opportunity of the Catherine's return.'
home, to cOmmunicate with their friends, we need not be, more
particular on this part of the subject. The Thomas Naigioi, of
end for Liverpool., which sailed in company with the Catheiine,'
brings back four of them as passengers, and front these, also,
more infOrination will be derived, so that the entire extent of
the dlitater must snon be made known, and' the chasms he fill.;
ed up this painful history, which we have gathered togither
in rather a desultory Way, but with strict adherence to the facts
which have come to our knowledge. The fate of the emigtinti
by the Honduras Parket anti libsnersky Castle must naturally
lead to a disquietude regarding those which left this country
let a subsequent "period, and of whom we 'yet can have no ae-
counts. The Skeen, we find, sailed from Leith in the beginning
of June, with a full cargo, consisting of settlers (many or
them persons of considerable property), and vartorte stores and
merchluelise. They woeld not, of course, reach the Mosquito*
Shore till some tiara after it had been abandoned; but this eh.-
eutustauce would probehly induct them to detain the vessel un-
til they saw how the lanai loft, and thus; at the worst of it, if
they only got the voyage for their pains, they wotild not be C.V.
posed to the privations and sickness which their predecessor's
have endured. We understand vessels are even et present pre-
paring to take passengers for the same quarter ; but surely a
pause must now occur, at least until the difficulties of the Un-
dertaking be hilly ascertained, and ample Means employed to
gcard, against a fate similar to that of the emigrants by the two
first vessel&

A most MI AnFur. ACCIDENT Occurred at
Swinefleot, near Ilowden on Saturday last, at
the house of Mr. Ireland, during his absence at
llowden-market. Whilst the servant maid was
in the kitchen, the two children came in, the
eldest a tine boy about nine years of age, the
other a girl about four; they were very deiiion*
that the servant should boil them some 1/0110, to
make them some apple scoops, but this poll:414$
not being convenient at the time, she re-
fused ; the children continued their anxious
request (buty alas! in vain); the servant, in
order to deter them, threatened to showt the
boy, went into another room and fetched a .gun,
of which she twice pulled the trigger, sew,
quently thought itvv
she
asnetpre tinted t n
loaded
iiiowtevz„.
dreadful to relate, when
boy it unfortunately, ,s nt off, and killed hiiti
dead on the spot, tak,hig away nearly the o. hole
of his throat, and so near as to burn the frill on
his fleck. It appeared that the last time the gun
was used, the priming was taken out, and the
lock was left with the cock and pan down.