The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-08 00:00:00

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FROM OTATIEITE.

(From the Shipping Gazette.)
We have been favoured with the following exfr*at
of a letter received by a mercantile firm. It i 4 some
days later than previous advices, and will be found
interesting :

" PAPEETI, JULT 18, 1944.
" Ota.heite is in a lamentable state at the present
time ; the natives causing much apprehension, heep-
the French soldiers continually on the alert. We
have, since the arrival of the schooner (Ist of

July), been daily expecting an attack upon
the settlement, for which reason it was
deemed prudent not to discharge the cargo; but
we commence to-day, having written to the Gover-
nor, holding the Fiench Government responsible for
any loss or damage occasioned to British property
from the proceedings of the present war. The feel-
ing of insecurity has prevented our making many
sales at present, and from the same cause we fear we
shall not realise such good prices us expected. We shall
have a full cargo for the schooner. Captain Hammond,
of the Salamander, has disappointed expectation. lie
appears to take a view of Otaheitian affairs opposite
from that of any of his predecessors. A letter he
sent to the French Governor was, by the latter's
directions, rendered into the Otaheitian dialect,
with perverted meaning, and posted about, in the
hope that it might induce the natives to
give over their struggle, and quietly sub-
mit to the French yoke. The perverted letter was to
the effect, that Captain Hammond begged to inform
the French Governor that his arrival in Otaheite was
merely for the purpose of looking after the interests
of British property, there being no representative of
the Queen of Great Britain in this land. Captain
Hammond declared that it was utterly useless for the
OtahL itians to resist the exalted power of France, and
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assistance. This letter, in the opinion
of many, instead of having the desired effect, will
merely precipitate matters a little; as the natives, in
the belief that Britain has deserted and left them to
their own resources, have determined to do or die.
The native population, with few exceptions, have

taken to the mountains, and parties of them from time
to time engaged the French in skirmishes, many of
the latter having been killed, and some Otaheitians.
" The priests' houses have been burnt, and the
houses of others favouring the French, and much
property has been destroyed ; and in a late affray
between the natives and their invaders, we regret to
state that the Rev. T. S. Alliean was shot dead as he
was turning from his verandah to his house. The bullet
struck him behind his ear, and lodged below the socket
of his eye ; he breathed heavily for five or six minutes
after his fall, and expired without a word ; it is not
known for certainty from which party the shot was
fired. His loss is deeply deplored, as he was the most
learned of the mission, and a very amiable man. His
wife and children, who had gone to an adjacent
island for security are yet in ignorance of his sad

fate. Nearly all the missionaries are leaving the
island; some for England, and others for islands ad-
jacent. We will not enter into further distressing

detail, as
ticular6 : and we have no doubt you will shudder at

his fate."

UNITED STATES.
(From the Liverpool Timis.)
By the fast sailing American ship General Parkhill,
Captain APKown, we have several days' later dates from
Charleston than those previously received. She left the
Bar on the 16th ult. The news from Liverpool by the
steamer Caledonia, of Nov. 19, reached Charleston on
the 12th ult., as appears from a paper of the 13th ult.
We give an extract of some interest :