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sheets of the boat, we shoved off' and proceeded
to the Asia. The face of the water was covered
with pieces of wreck : masts and yards drifted
about on the surface, to which clung hundreds
of poor wretches whose vessels had been blown
up. Numbers of them imploringly cried upon
us, in the Turkish language, a small smattering
of which the most of us had picked up at
Smyrna. We kept paying out the hawser as
we pulled along, but, just as we came within six
fathoms of the Asia, our hawser terminated,
and we could not proceed any farther. The crew
of the Asia, at the gun-room port, seeing our
dilemma, hailed us, and hove a rope's end to
make fast to ourhawser ; but this we could not ma-
nage. A man, then, of the name of George Fin-
ney, captain of our main-top; seeing there could
be no other way of getting it done, jumped into the
water, and swam the distance between the boat

and the flag-ship ; the end of the hawser was
then put out of the port, and Finney, catching
hold of it swam back to the boat, bearing the
end of the heavy rope in one hand, and swim-
ming with the other. We soon made what
sailors call a " Carrick bend" of the two ends,
and began to pull back for the Genoa. The
Admiral appeared on the poop, in a plain blue
surtout, and signed with a handkerchief, for us
to make all speed. Scarcely had we gained half-
. way between The Asia and our own ship, when
the former ship's mizen went over the quarter
with a crash. We thought the Admiral was in-
volved in the wreck, as we saw him standing at
the place not a minute before the mast went over ;
but we were relieved from this apprehension by
his re-appearance on a conspicuous situation.
We picked up on our way back ten of the poor
drowning wretches who were drifting about
during the storm of fire and thunder, that made
the ancient island of Sphalactria tremble again.
—Several of them were Arabs, quite black, but
all were Mahometans, as we saw by the lock of
hair left on the crown of their heads, by which
Mahomet, according to their own belief, lifts
them to Paradise.

Not a shot had struck the boat since we left
our own ship, although several pieces of burning
wood and showers of burned rice and olives,
from the Turkish ships, rained down upon us in
plentiful profusion ; but as one of our men, called
Buckley, was hauling a tall, stout young Moslem
out of the water, a shot blew the head of the
Turk to pieces, upon which Buckley, turning
coolly about, said, "-- me, did ever you
see the like of that?"
Cool, however, as a British sailor is in danger,
nothing can approach the Turk in this respect.
George Finney— mentioned before—had hauled
one into the boat, a fine looking fellow, and ele-
gantly dressed. He was no sooner seated in the
bow of the boat, than taking out a portable ap-
paratus, lie began to fill his pipe, which having
done, he struck a light from the same conve-
niency, and commenced sending forth, with in-
conceivable apathy, volumes of smoke from his
mouth. "Do you see that Turkish rascal,"
said Finney, who was provoked at this singular
instance of indifference. " Well, since lie cares
so little for being hauled out of his Botanic
Majesty's clutches, we'll send him where he came
frown," So saying, lie made a spring forward, and
seizing the Turk,who could not understand how he
had offended, tumbled him overboard before any
one could prevent him. The Turk soon recovered,
and got upon a piece of the wreck of one of his
own ships, tihere he was picked up by the Al-
bion's boat. Another instance of Turkish cool-
ness I may mention, which, although it did not
happen in our ship, was told me under well-
authenticated circumstances. Some of the crew
of the French frigate Alcyone had picked up a
Turk, who, by his dress, appeared to be a person
of rank in their navy. When he was brought
aboard, he found his arm so shattered, that it
would need to undergo amputation; so he made
his way down the cockpit ladder with as much
ease as if he bad not been hurt, and as much
dignity as if he had made a prize of the frigate.
lie pointed to his shattered arm, and made signs
to the surgeon that he wanted it off. The sur-
geon obliged him so far, and having bound up
the stump, and bandaged it properly, the Turk
made his way to the deck, and, plunging into
the water, swam to his own vessel that was op-
posed, along with another, to the very frigate he
had been aboard of. He was seen climbing the
side with his one arm, but had not been aboard
many minutes when it ble N up, and he, among
others of the crew, in all probability, perished in
the explosion.—Caledonian Mercury.

The Lords of his MAJESTY'S Most Honour-
able Privy Council had a meeting at eleven o'clock yester-
day morning in the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The
Lords present were Lord WYNFORD, the Judge of the Ad-
miralty Court, and the Chief commissioner of the Woods
and Forests. The appeal of WHITE PARNTHER (from
Jamaica) was marked for hearing on their Lordships' list
Mr. Bucnalwe, on the part of the appellant, opened the
appeal, which was in fact a case of equity in the Chancery
Court of Jamaica, from which Court reference by appeal
was made to their Lordships. The Court, by a decree in
1828, founded on a bill Sled by the respondents in 1822,
ordered the sale of an estate in the island of which the ap-
pellants, as mortgagees, had been in possession for a number
of years, in order that the respondents might be permitted
to establish a claim on the property prior to that of some of
the mortgagees; Amongst others, the wife of the deceased
proprietor of the estate claims 300/. per annum under her
husband's will, bearing date 17751. The decree, it was
contended, was wrong, inasmuch as the respondents in the
bill on which it was founded, did not offer to become liable
for the payment of the claim of the mortgagees, and also
for all the costs and expences of the suit. As to the claim
of the wife, the words in the will making the bequest were,
" after all my just rein lawful debts are paid." And as the
appellants stood in the character of creditors, the claim,
even under the words of the will, could not claim prece-
dence. The counsel for the appellants occupied the Court
about four hours. The counsel for the respondents then
commene,ed his reply. At half-past three o'clock Lord
WYNFORIG intimated their Lordships' wish that the fartliei
hearing of the ease should be postponed. Thair Lordships
lien a .journed.

Mr. BucKINGH Am's lately-published volume
of Travels in " Assyria, Media, and Persia," will be found
more than usually interesting, from the attention he has
bestowed on the remains of antiquity still existing in the
countries of the Medes and Persians; which researches
not only explain a►rd confirm several statements in the his-
tories of HenonoTus and of DIODORUS SICULUS, but also
throw a light on many passages in Holy writ. The scene
of the sacred story of Queen E6THER, MoanEcal, and
King AHASUERUS is, in particular, dwelt on with much
interesting and picturesque detail.

The Marquis of STAFFORD, who, in 1820,
regulated the rents of his English estates according to the
average price of wheat, still adheres to that system ; thus
meeting, as nearly as possible, the exigencies of the times
and the necessities of his tenants. Under this arrange-
ment, the deductions received by his tenants amounted in
1821 to 32 per cent. 1825 to 16 per cent.
1822 to 46 ditto 1826 to 28 ditto
1823 to 35 ditto 1827 to 31 ditto
1824 to 22 ditto 1828 to 26 ditto

Ilia Lordship has, in like snanner, regulated the rents of
his Scotch estates by the average price of wool, wedders,
and ewes, by which his tenants in the North have re-
ceived the following abatements :—in
1821 to 18 per cent. 1825 to 27 per cent.'
1822 to 36 ditto 1826 to 18} ditto
• 1823 to 40 ditto 1827 to 29i ditto
1824 to 32 ditto 1828 to 31 ditto.