The Sun.
London, England, 1810-07-24 00:00:00

21.1UNGO

The fate of this enterNizing and estimable cha-
ra&er has long been a subject strongly interesting to
every friend of science and humanity. We are
therefore happy in the opportunity of presenting to
our Readers t he following Letter, which is held forth
as aothentic.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MOGADORE, 25T11

MAY, 1810.

Ste—l had the honour of addressing you last the
7th November last year, and having lately heard the
vessel had been captured, I shall previous to entering
on the immediate subject of this, recapitulate the
contents of my former.
19 the spring of t 803, a number of persons were
here from Tombuetoo, who almost all confirmed the
intelligence you had got from Mr. Jackson, of a
boat with Christians having appeared, and lay to
off the port of Catra—of their having hoisted a
white flag, and of their having passed Tumbudoo
without having entered it, or having had any corn-
A General Court Mateial assembled on Monday
, municatitin with it. They also confirmed what I
last, at Chelmsford, for the trial of a subaltern I wrote in my former letter, of their having been
officer, in the Derby regiment of Militia, upon some l attacked by the Tuercks, and that at the time of
Charges brought against him by his Commanding ; their being off Catra, there were remaining. six
Officer. 1 white persons and two blacks. The slaves they
had purchased of the King of Rambarra, whom all
Last week the 87th regiment of Foot or Prince of 1
Wales's Irish re 'ment arrived at Harwich, and
gi , persons report as having aeled towards them in a
,
tr very friendly manner, He is since dead, and Ido
nbarked on board transports for Cadiz to join the
2d battalion there. not hear so favourable an account of his successor,
In the summer of 1808, several other persons
Yesterday afternoon six subaltern officers of the ! came here from the interior, who informed. me they
_ 42d regiment, now at Muaselburgh, arrived in town, I had met with the Christians at the second Grand
7111 d immediately set off tbr the Isle of Wight, in 01-1 Cataract on the Niger, or, as they call it, the Nile,
der to proceed for Portugal, to join the 2d battalion ! which they were preparing to pass. They said the
of that regiment there. . 1 Christians were then out of danger, as to being. kill-
Friday a detachment of the 21st or Royal North ; ed, but acknowledged they might probably be
British Fuzilsers embarked at Portsmouth for Cadiz. stopped, made slaves of, and that no further intelli-
-I:hey are a fine body of men, and appeared in -high i gence might ever reach us respecting thew. They
spirits. I told me there were three great cataracts on She Ni-
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t ger,. or Nile, and as. my infermation has been de-
'Yesterday morning, at day-break, drais from the i
rived from a variety of persons, et have no reaso.l to Coldstream, and 3d regiments of Guard:, under the
command of Liew.-Calomel G. SMYTH, marched susped its veracity, either with respect to their hay-
:
ing fallen in with Parkes party, or Ole actual exist-
from the parade in the Birdcage-walk, on their route.
_to Portsmouth, there to embark for Portorral, to •ti ence of the cataracts..
3°ln Lord WELLINGTON'S army with oh , A person who was here lately from Tornbudoo,
1 dispatch,
, and who is particular') conneded with cur house, in-
General MoREALT, through 'the intercession of the formed me he also saw the boat oti:Cabia ; that be
Archduke CHARLES, has been invited by NArot.Eori was only a short distance from them ; and that IWO
tOz returni to France. We believe this is a fact, but or three months after, a blend of his procured from.
we do not believe the General will accept the iitvi- some Tusrcks a number of books, drawings, and
ration—he knows _ BUONAPARTE too well to have any : manuscripts, with h, he said, belengen to the Chris-
volifidence in him.—e New York Gazette. 1 i •
thins who passed in the bcrit. His dessriotiou of
, A very excellent circular letter has lately bsen ! these papers was so particular, th it I think there is
transmitted by the Bishop of Hereford to the clergy . every reason to suppese them to be the drawings,
vi his diocese, requiring from them a particular ac- journals, &c. of Mr. Parke. The Moor has gone
eo urn of the state of religion within :heir parochial intoithe interior, and has promised to do his endea-
!fillet-es, and comprehending principally the follow- yours to procure them for me. I also furnished
log subjects, respecting which a distinct ems aer is to him with memoranda, to which he said he would
the services of the church are performed, especially Pat ke's patty were living in those' roe rens, he would
2 the Lord's day ?—Whether the incumbent re- ascertain the fact, or, if dead, sndeavour to learn
aides in his parish, or leaves it to the care of a en- where they met their end.
lute ?—The reason of such non-residence ?—The i As it is the interest of the person I alluded to to
annual stipend of the curate ?—What are the sea- oblige me, I have no doubt of his exertions to obtain
I:)°Ps for catechising the children ?—.Wh it number as much knowledge respeaing the actual situation of
, dissenting places of worship there are in the ea- Mr. Parke and his company, or of their deaths as is
list); and of what particular denomination ? toge- practicable.
L'er with several other questions of equal import- That persons may remain a long time in the in •
7..7.e, all tending to inculcate diligence in the clergy, tenor without any accounts of them reaching any
'" the best interests of our ecclesiastical establish- parts of the
eoast, is certain, arid I have had within
Illent•1 these few days a proof of it, in a gentleman who was
'.e In the regions of fashion, in Paris, nothins, is talked wrecked on the Arab coast, in the beginning of
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rer conversation her manners are all so out but the new Empress. Her costume, hera'' p
many erson, 806. The Captain of the vessel 'was ransomed by
us for .1400 dollars, in the first instance, and many ,
1 heavy charges were added to it. He was brought to (Idels of taste, and woe to the luckless Parisian
our house in June 1807, and shortly after all his
PiPionshould hope for fame—whether from the surviving. crew were brought up. His passenger
on of an essay, or the ton of a kid slipper—in
remained in captikity in the interior, and front the
devotion or in dimity—a problem, or a petticoat, un- date of his last letter of the 251 h August, 1807, till
rite it have received some colour of its claims from within these few days, I have never been able to
e!2' e irradating genius of this despotic divinity. get any intelligence of him, so that he was conslud-
:iYhen she takes an airing in her carriage, dura- ed dead. Two days ago, I learned from a person
440 n at Paris is at end ; and the operations of nature who came from Tes,ared, that he was still there,
i!e, suspended; save that the winds creep in and kept to hard labour. If, then, a Christian could
"dulattons around her car, and some cloud ac-
remain unheard of in the neighbourhood of Wid• v'mpanies her as a parasol. The Emperor makes a now, it is not unlikely Mr. Parke, or some of his
tsuggestion. If she were to express a wish for one
tlf the 'p When our friend returns from Souden, I shall Ina
it , yramids, he would send a nation to fetch I form you what
,success tie has met with,; such was At a single word, she might transform the
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the substance of the letter I hail the honour of writ-
e Yestan Fields into a desert, and the Louvre into ing you the 7th November last.
e-al'es- If the Seine otfeeded her, he would
Our. blend returned from Souden this morning ;
province
its course, and roll it through a different his journey has been rapid, as he did not gb with
'tr°vince into the sea. At the Opera, which she the caravan, . but on a dromedary, and accompanied
4t"deSeercli to visit in private, site employs a con- by only one Leison,
it,a,o,t succession of tressengers. The sweetest air A vessel being on departure, I profit of it to give
stl'l:turope must be repeatec—or the divinest dancer you such information as I have from him. . He has
eft again exhibit some e whelk mos einem, or some
brought a letter from Tombuctooedated two months
IvuVieut attitude. Her caprice, which, in Eno land, and twnty-five days since. 'llie pw nt
erson ho le-
:u viL,d be
locity of. deemed
sensation! madness, is, in Paris, denominat- epioyed desired his frieed to give the particulars in
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• the form of a letter, au.' the following is a literal
.
eons
was to be another meeting this day of per- translation of it. . .
la" whe are interested in the rebuilding of Drury- " Concerning the Christians, I have made great
tie Theatres, and there was good reason to hope inquiries after them ; they came from Sego to Sin-
‘,Q' s the measures which they were likely to adopt •i since, and they passed by Jennie to Kabar—some
41:41-1 be full as 11301(MS and efiedive as on. all for- of them died ; there remained of them only four alive,
. 'r occasions. and they eent and killed a Sheriff or Prince, on the
Oun apology was made for the indisposition of . way by the side of the Nile, and they tell in with the
ih\l'roei last night ; but he, nolwithstaeding, went Touarlss' et Bounba, aed they fought and slew some
7,1.'410 his part; and the new musical farce of , of the Touarks, and they went on till they passed to
hi"IY to be a stock-piece twenty years beric(". ''''ll;is Years Ago, was so well received, that it is Hanbara, which is ten long days jeer ucy from Tom-
budoo, and I have heard no more of them but this.
I don't know if they are dead or alive, God only
el 13ANNISTER closed his engagement last night, at
kilos,- s,and on the road truth Shugo, and along the side
esHaymarket Theatre, for his benefit, which
titiy, •
of eras. 01 the Nile, no one has spoken with them, and they
this ker. He is now to resume his Budget Od-
I 'were in the practice, whatever land they arrived at,
ie teas which lie it to open for the entertainment oft
,ael to write it down, and to buy and sell with the
tii "Y provincial towns, during the rest of the people in their bout. They wade presents to the
Entuer.
! suic• ide has been committed at Bulford near King of Bainbara, and he protected them and treated
..I.
it4atel_sbur them well, and this is the news I have of theineaud
peace be ta hit You."
th y, ,ai tended with eetraordinary circurn-
A petty shopkeeper, having excited the in-
Written at Tombudoo, on the z; day of 111oharrim
4j_oation of his neighbours, by gross and most
el Harram, in the year 12.25.
ti:tiddloui misconduct towards an apprentice boy,
pereiliey was paraded through the village, with pro-
tilt nlarks of ienominy, and at length consigned to
pre_galio is s. The intervention of Sunday (the i sth)
tio'-‘=ured him some respite from the din of these an-
I, tine cereninnies, when he asked a former friend
r What he lid test do ?" and was frankly answered,
law' amid hang yourself !" The wt etched man 'Ot-
itis" his advice, and was some time after found
Pended a c r, se.
)4.0:5 Saturshe e 4, a fir. brake out in 'the house of
NI, Stokes, t • ~. , , s: s II
east, whi. , together
i't
h two house
. .;',ng, t% er._- entire ly destroyed.

The following Regiments are to be engaged in
the above sham fight, .iz. St. James's with fieldLeces, St. Pancras, Queen's, North Britons, York
Marv-le•bonne with field pieces, Prince of Wales's
Duke of Gloucester's, St. George's Bloomsbury,
and the St. Clement's Danes.

Our friend will return io6loo very shortly,
and he wilt then malie inquiries alter kir: Parke and
his companions at Henbara, thrOugh the mediUm
of some triendS he has there, and he will endeavour
to trace them from Henbara, they were last
heard of, and if any of them are living, Will, -if pos-
sible, get them to write their names on paper, and
forward it to me. The- Moor,gives me hopes he
will procure me the journal, drawings, Ste.
The Talk or Cadi, at Tombuetoo, who used to
write'to Alr. Jackson, is lately dead. I should have
been happy it the information bad bee❑ such as to

have clearly determineil the point whether Mr,
Mono Parke wai living or not ; it, however, -ap-
pears probable the former, and it wlll give me great
pleasure if, at a toture period, I am enabled.to put
►t beyond a doubt.
I have the houour to be, very respe&ully.