The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-11 00:00:00

TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1842.

took the flannel shirt off my back himself, and a .nt for
those of the officers. On the 26th of February we
heard that Da Souza had settled with him to leave in
a few days by promising a large sum of money. He
now would not see us, and engaged men to strike me
amongst the Lascars, and who were ordered not to supply.
us with wood and water. I accidentally met him, when he
said he had beard the boats would be ready in a few days,
and we should all be sent to Singapore. He
demanded what present I intended making him ? I
again mentioned the jewel-box, &c. At this he was
vexed,. and said I must consider that, and all we bad
brought here, as burnt in the ship, and our lives would
have been lost also if he bad not given them us. I offered
him 500 dollars, being convinced he would not allow us
to leave without some fresh inducement, at which he
laughed in my face. Pangeran Eusof uow returned after
an absence of 45 days instead of 15. We immediately
called on him, but were received without civility. He
said the Sultan. would do as he pleased, and the prows
would lease the next moon for all that he knew. The
Sultan now sent for Mrs. Page's wedding ring, observ-
ing that the English custom was the same as theirs, not
to take it off the finger, but that was nothing to him ;
he wanted it. It was sent him on the 'following day,
when he told me he did not care whether I was angry
• about_ the ring or not, and that he would make me an-
swerable for my wife's acts. Our means of procuring
food were., now stopped altogether. I demanded what
he intended doing with us. He replied, he had given
us our lives, and wanted his present, but would not say
how much. I offered 2,000 dollars for all, but he
would not allow me to mention the Locers, and di.
rected me to sign documents to the amount of 2,750
dollars for the officers and myself, and he would send
to Singapore for the money.
We mentioned to Pangeran Eusof we had no fond,
when he laughe 1, but made no reply. I then told
him if he would supply us with provisions and use his
influence to procure us a passage we would make him a
present of 1,000 dollars, at which he promised to speak
iu our favour to the Sultan, and said if we would make
him our friend that he did not want the 1,000 dollars ;
all he wished was to assist poor men in distress, but we
must promise to give all the money we sent for into his
hands, and he would take care of us until one of our
party returned from Singapore with is, and we had better
send for ell the funds wo could raise, and he would pro-
: cure merchandise for them, and insure me a large profit.
The following morning he requested me to write a list
of upwards of 1,000 Spanish dollars' worth of articles,
which he gave Mr. Gill instructions to bring as his pre-
sent,informing me that we must pay besides for all we had
from him ; and on the 30th of March we took up our
abode in an outbuilding close to his house. Mrs. Page
was confined the night after, and all went well with
her, notwithstanding her wretched situation.
The Sultan now ordered us to make all the Rajahs
presents, and, we were obliged to give notes to the
amount of 2,500 dollars. The prows were to sail in
four days,• but did not leave until the 23d of May,
when they took Mr. Gilt, Miss and Mr. da Souz
and three native servants, we being detained as
hostages. Pangeran Eusol's brother, Pangeran Yacob,
informed us the Sultan had sold us to Pangeran Eusof ;
this we heard from all quarters. About this time a
teak-built vessel of 30 tons or thereabouts arrived, jury-
rigged, which the Malays said the pirates had given them
for 19 dollars. She had been a cutter and probably a
Dutch trader or gun-boat. Pangeran Eusof allowed us
sufficient to procure ,food, 1 I rupees per day, and was
kind in sending Mrs. Page tea, &c., and sold us some
cloth for a change of clothes. They now commenced
building what they called forts ; several prows were con-
verted into gunboats, and their conversation was ge-
nerally about fighting white men. Oa the 29zh of
July we saw our boat burnt for the iron work. On the
sth of August an English schooner was reported to
have anchored in the roads. All our Lascars were sent
out of the way and closely guarded, and the entire
force of Borneo went to the river's entrance, as we
feared, to cur her off. On the 9,11 Pangerau Eusof
returned and told us the schooner had come to trade,
but on being questioned he admitted she had demanded
us, but tie Sultan bad decided not to let us go
until his prows and the money arrived from Singa-
pore, even if ten ships should be sent. Many of the
Malays had told us that if their people were detained by
the English Government they would murder every Eu-
ropean they could get bold of, and that the Sultan now
regretted that he did not kill us in the first instance.
Pangeran Eusof had expressed himself much pleased
at the manner in which the Sultan had acted, and
informed me the prows Mr. Gill went in were
dismasted, and blockaded by pirates. He desired me
to write to Singapore, and he would send the letter
by one of his prows, to say that we were deter-
mined not to leave until a ship was sent for us, as we
feared the pirates, and that the schooner, which now
proved to be the Royalist, nobly sent by Mr.
Brooke from Serasvak for us, was too small. I ad-
vised him to persuade the Sultan to let us depart in
the prow, as we did not fear pirates, and he neght send
a person with us to settle accounts, but I positively re-
fused to write, as the Singapore authorities would uow
certainly know our situatioe. H e asked me if I had
written to Mr. Gill for ships of war, but he observed,
" I don't care whether you have or not, as it will be the
worse for yourselves, as our forts arc now all ready, and
we don't fear them. On the 25th, 18 of the crew who
were in the cutter arrived from Maludu, which place
they reached two days after we lost sight of them ;
9 of that pa•ty died from eating oysters and green
mangoes on binding, and 19 are still new Maludu,
which, with those who were in the long-boat, account for
all that were on board the Sultana. They brought a
report of an European lady being near there, whose
husband, along with the officers of the ship, was killed
by the Rejah 15 years since. She attempted to destroy
herself at their death, but was preventAn by the Rajah,
by whom she is said to have a family. She begged the
Lascars to inform the English of her wretched situation,
but
as
they
only
saw her they learned no further parti-
culars. the 2d of September we heard that seven
ej
ebipi,weea in the 'made, and two steam-vessels " like
mountains." All their force were dispatched to the
forts, and I was told that it, was all my fault, and I had
was killed it, would be bad for me.
sent for them. Extra guards were placed over us, and
arrived from the Hon. Company's
stOhterleaymtsbtiveides3isfdelaaDMibaaonlaaaty, with Pangeran Eusof, who ordered
me immediately to go to the vessel, as the captain
wanted to see me alone. I positively refused to le ive
without the rest of our party, and after a good deal of
palaver we started from Borneo, accompanied by Pan-
geran Eusof, and arrived on board the Diana two hours
afterwards. We found her the only vessel, and that she
had been sent by the Singapore authorities. She was
at anchor within gun shot of their absurd and harmless
forts, and to the gallant manner in which Captain Con-
gleton stood up the river I entirely attribute his success.
We beard, to our very deep regret that the prow
Messrs. Gill and the Da Souzas went in was not forth-
coming, although a gun-boat had been sent by the Singa-
pore authorities in search of her. Captain Congleton
with much difficulty procured all the people who arrived
in Borneo in the long-boar, and nine of those that came
from Maludu, so there are now in Borneo nini3 of the
Sultana's crew. Messrs. Zechariah and Co. have sent “
brig in search of the prow, and to their exertions we are
particularly indebted. We have received the most
generous kindness from Captain Congleton and all on
board the Diana.

FAMILIES OF LITERARY MEN.
The Quarterly Review, in discussing an objection to
the Copyright Bill of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, which was
taken by Sir Edward Sugden, gives some very curious
particulars about the progeny of literary men. "We
are not," says the writer, " going to speculate about the
causes of the fact—but a fact it is—that men, distin-
guished for extraordinary intellectual power of any
sort, very rarely leave more than a very brief line of
progeny behind them. Men of genius have scarcely
ever done so. Men of imaginative genius, we might
say, almost never. With the one exception of the
noble Surrey we cannot at this moment point out a re-
presentative-in the male line even so far down as in the
third generation of any English poet, and we believe the
case is the same in France. The blood of beings of that
order can seldom be traced far down even in the female
line. With the exceptions of Surrey and Spencer we are
not aware of any great English author of at all remote
date from whose body any living person claims to be
descended. There is no other real English poet
prior to the middle of the eighteenth century,
and we believe no great author of any sort—
except Clarendon and Shaftesbury—of whose. blood
we have any inheritance amongst us. Chaucer's only
son died childless. Shakspeare's line expired in his
daughter's only daughter. None of the other drama-
tists of that age left any progeny—nor Raleigh, nor
Bacon,. nor Cowley, nor Butler. The granddaughter
of Milton was the last of his blood. Newton, Locke,
Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot, Hume, Gibbon, Cowper, Gray,
Walpole, Gavendish —and we might greatly extend
the list—never married. Neither Bolingbroke, nor
Addison, nor Warburton, nor Johnson, nor Burke, trans-
mitted their blood. M. Renouard's last argument
against a perpetuity in literary property is that it would
founding another noblesse., Neither jealous aris-
tocracy nor envious Jacobinism need be under much
alarm. When a human race has produced its bright
consummate flower' in this kind, it seems commonly to
be near its end."
Poor Goldsmith might have been mentioned in the
above list. The theory is illustrated in our own day.
The two greatest names in science and in literature, of
our time, were Davy and Sir Walter Scott. ThE first
died childless. Sir Walter left four children, of whom
three are dead, only one of them (Mrs. Lockhart)
leaving issue, and the fourth (his eldest son), though
living, and long married,_ has no issue. These are cu-
rious facts.

Mr. Babington, F.L.S., of St. John's College,
Cambridge, is announced as a candidate for the chair of
Botany at King's College, vacant by the death of the late
Professor Don. Dr. Leman and Mr. Kippist are both
announced as candidates for the situation of Librarian of
the Linn can Society, also held by the former.
The Paris Post-office has published a notice that
the mail with the letters sent from Paris to St. Peters-
burgh on the 23d, 24th, and 25th of November, has been

lost between Riga and the Russian capital, and that all
efforts of the Russian Government to find it have hitherto
been unsuccessful.
THE WEATHER.---The weather during the
past week has presented a succession of frosty and over-
cast, cloudy and fine, nights, with occasional small
showers of broad snow flakes. A rain-guage at Hack-
ney, up to Sunday at noon, indicated but three-hun-
dredths of an inch occasioned by the melting snow.
There was a prevalence of northerly winds, and the high-
est range of the barometer was 30.5 inches on Saturday,
the average maximum for the week being 30.15, and the
minimum 30 inches. On Sunday, at four o'clOck, the
thermometer at the Zoological Gardens was 27 deg.,
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