The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-15 00:00:00

CHIVALROUS UNDERTAKING

The lovers of science and admirers of Baron
Humboldt and Mons. Bonpland, will be inte-
rested in the noble enterprise of Madame Bonp-
land„ in search of her husband, It is known
t hfit he has long been detained in Paraguay by the
absolute Director Dr.Francia, although the Doctor
has takcn some pains to convince the world, by
weans of the 13razil Press; that Moos. Bonpland
iemaina in Paraguay by choice, and not by ne-
cessity. . Devoted to general science, and to Bo-
tany in particular, knowing that the greatest
field in the world was oeeit to him in that de-
partment in Paraguay, ne ventured upon enter-
ing that singular Republic, from which no stran-
ger has been known to return during Dr. Fran-
cia's reign, in the hope that the character which
be bore, and the pursuits in which he was en-
gaged, would be his safeguard from the jealous
suspicions. The Paraguay Jesuit, how-
ever, whose great care is to keep his subjects
;slur European contamination, and contact with
Republican America, hermetically, as it appears,
sealed the country to him on his entrance.—
Much interest had been made for his release, not
only by European Monarchs, but by Buenos
Ayres and Don Pedro the Emperor of Brazil,
but without effect. Madame Bonpland directed
her voyage, in the first instance, to Rio Janeiro,
but on her arrival there found the young Em-
Ifieror had it not in his power to assist
Fier romantic enterprise, having already failed
in his repeated efforts iii favour of her
husband. She accordingly left Rio in a
French store-ship, and after a most tempos•-•
tuous voyage arrived in Chile, where she re-
mained several weeks, during which time she re;
ceived every attention Ccoin the British merchants
and residents, and in particular from Capt. Juby,
of his Malesty's ship ;Wage. Upon her em-
barkation tor Peru, she encountered a repetition
of misfortunes in the loss of her trinket box,
containing jewels to a considerable amount—a
Joss, in her circumstances, she 'was little able to
Sustains Nothing, • however; could damp the
ardour of this extraordinary woman. She at-
tiyed at Lima, and took up her abode in thel
iciuse of an English merchant to whcwhomshe was
tccounnended. From thence, notwithstandinn•
-
the strong renjonstrantccs of' her friends, she set
‘itt. for Upper Peru, determined to prosecute her
undertaking. Marshal Sucre, President of that,
Republic, accorded her his protection, and ma'
.itle3tell the greatest interest in her wehre. Sub-
erlucutly she.set off from Arica and Tacua, to
traveeee those immense wilds, hitherto Unex-
plored by civilized man, and but little knOwn
even to the native Indian, which separate the
two counttias.' She was accompanied by a little
black slave only, of- It years of age.
The next accounts of the chivalrous under-.
taking of this heroic woman, will be looked for
with the greatest interest by all lovers of science
and the arts, to wkom this brief account of her
progress hitherto cannot fail to prove highly in-
terestin may a gracious ,Piovidenee crown
g.
her labours with success, and restore herself, her
husband, and the treasures which he possesses
for the enriching of science, to his behaved
country and an admiring
world !—Mornina-
.ldvertiser.

We do not remember to have had for a long
time such a heavy gale of wind as was experienced here
last Saturday. The tea ran very high with a heavy swell.
A small groyne near the pier was completely washed away.
--Brighton Gazette.