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ABBE DUBOIS' DiANNNIIS AND oUSIVINS bg
-INDIA.
This day was.pubilsbed, 416. price et. tIC boards;
A DESCRIPTION-of the Character, Manfienti
and Customs of the People of India; and their haulm:
tions, Religious and Civil.
By the Abbe J. A. DUBOIS, Aliminnary in the Mylore.
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orine, Brown, and Greeni
London. Of whom may be bad, by the same Author,
LEITERS on the STATE 01 CHRISTIANITY in Nora; in which
the Conversion of the Iliodoos is considered as impracticable.
To which is added, a Vindication of the liindoos, Hale and Ve..
male, in Answer to a severe Attack made upon both by the
Reverend "6". In small (No. price Is. boards.

POYAIS SE2TLEMENT.

FROM TILE JAMAICA ROYAL GAZETtE, JUNE 28.
HONDURAS, is.—Personally appeared before me,
Thomas Pickstock, Esq.. one of the Magistrates of
this settlement duly elected, Nicol Smith, George
Black, Andrew Pieken, and- James Murray, who,
being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelists of A
micrery Got, depose and say, that the deponents left
the port of Leith, in the ship Kinnersley Castle,
bound to Black River on the Mosquito shore, and in •
the month of Muth arrived off the bar of the said
river, with about one hundred and sixty passengers,
about one hundred and fifty-eight of whom were in
the employ of Sir Gregor M'Gregor, and intended
by him as settlers on land, called by him the terri-
tory of Poyais ; that immediately on the said ship's
arrival, they were landed on Black River, when,
instead of finding a large city or town, callfd or
named St. Joseph, containing, as had been repre-
sented to them, a population of about fifteeritundred
inhabitants, which would 'nave afforded them every
comfort they were led to expect, they found a few
miserable huts and tents in a wilderness, containing
about forty unfortunate individuals, who had some
time befoie arrived in the ship Honduras Packet, and
who deponents understood to have embarked and at.•
rived under the same unpleasant conditions as those
in the ship Kinnersley Castle. Thus thrown on a
coast covered with forests, and under the torrid
zone, we soon discovered the fallacy of all the plau-
sible and highly coloured representations that had led
us to forsake our native country. Far from the com-
forts and advantages we were led to expect, we had
not a roof to go under, nor shelter for the women
and children. Notwithstanding these discouraging
circumstances, every exertion was made to land the
-goods and stares that we brought .by the said ship ;
and being anxious that no blame should be attached
to us from want of exertion, we began to • make a
clearance around us, in order to make huts : but had
we not before been convinced of the deception im-
posed upon us, we were now fully so; for we found
the state of the country and nature of the soil, as also
the labour. requirei, such as that no permahent set-
tlement could be carried into effect by the European
settler alone; but scarcely had our feeble efforts
commenced, even to raise a covering from the incle-
mency of the sx ember, but a cruel disease attacked
us; despair seemed- now to take:a strong hold, and
soon, out of about 2(X) that arrived, 120 lay sick with
fever, nine died, and about ten sought safety'by'flight.
—To add to the feelings arising Irom such a situa-
tion, a short time before the settlers became sick it
had been promulgated by the Governor, that the King
of the Mosquito Indians declared the grant of Gregor
M'Gregor null and void, and required the settlers to
take the oath of allegiance to him, or quit the terri-
tory ; and the taking of which oath appeared incom-
patible with the duty they owed their Sovereign.—
While labouring under this alarm and afflction,
about the 20th of April, the schooner Mexiaan Eagle
arrived off the bar of the said river from the British
settlement of Belize, as deponents understand, with
presents to the Islosqinito King. This arrival depo.
nents and the other unfortunate people hailed with
joy; and as the Governor, Colonel Hall, had, in his
proclamation, stated that he was without funds to pay
them their monthly wages, in conformity to their
agreement with Sir Gregor M'Gregor, and which
would have been of no possible use in purchasing
from Indians the necessary comforts of life, and
which alone still more plainly exhibited the decep-
tion and imposition, of him who had deluded them
thither; and the Colonel further stating, that although
he could not sanction their leaving, or supply them
with any article, yet he should make no objection to
their doing the best for themselves—they prayed tn.
be allowed a passage to the British settlen.ent of Be-
lize, to save themselves from death.

Deponents further state, that the settlers who re-
main at Black Bider are enduring the greatest hard-
ships and distresi; and if some very • effectual 'mea-
sure is not immediately resorted to, it is deponents'
opinion many w.ll inevitably fill a sacrifice to misery
and despair.
The deponents and others have been much deceived
by the accounts issued by Sir Gregor NlNGregor, as
to the state and healthiness of the country; as, in-
stead of comfortable habitations upon our arrival,
we had nothing but the bale pound to sleep upon.
That deponents fully believe that not one individual
now on the shore would remain there one moment
should an opportunity offer to carry them away ; and
that they are now anxiously waiting such opportu-•
city, and that they will use every exertion in their
power to obtain it.
(Signed) N. SMITH, Surgeon, JAMES MURRAY,
GEORGE BLACK, ANDREW PICKEN.
•
Sworn before me at
.11elize, Ho•oduras,

this 16th day of May, 7823.
(Signed)- THOMAS PICKSTOCK.
In consequence of the above affid.i.vit being made,
in corroboration of a petition from the miserable
sufferers, Major-General CodJ, his Majesty's Super-
intendant at Honduras, with the most humane and
praiseworthy attention to such urgent distress, imme-
diately authorized the di Tatch of the Mexican Eagle
for the sentainder of them.
The number who originally arrived in the Hondu-
ras Packet, Wai 43; in the Kiimersley Castle, 160;
total, 203. Of these wet e, men and lads, 181 ; women,
`25 ; children, 37 ; unaccounted for, 1 ; total, 203.
Nine died at .Black River, and four at Belize.