Star.
London, England, 1809-12-22 00:00:00

VERSES

IEO THE 11/E:sinla OF JOHN SNEYD, ESQ. or ISEL,:ONT, IN
'..111E COUNTY OF STAFFORD, LATELY DEGL.'.:A.D.
E.T TUE REV. %TM VEINTHOIMU.
• rsonipri Hcnas, Nonacnque. town, Laiscleslinu manebunt.
VIRGIL.

The noblest virtues thtt acorn mankind,
Were early rooted in this gond man's mind;
There bionm'd and flouriidt'd, even front his youths
trr.hlemlth'd Honour, Probity, and Truth.
In exerei4ng magisterial sway,
Strong settle of right, he gloried to di,rlay ;
A•tentive tr-:r to the injured's call,
•
Impartial /ustire he dealt out to all;
strot-e to make foal I.itigatina cease,
And kindly pointed out the path to Peace.
Thus Whilst the healer of unnat'ral strife,
• A Patriot trio he.shone in private life;
And as he walled along its tranquil vale,
Where storms of Vice do not the soul assail;
He with ' mind with holy rapture fraught,
•
• - pre Ptll ton by example taught;
sal train, his pride was to attend,
.1:: the rear beheld a real friend :
• t.s lreatlhn; this valu'd Patriot mov'd,
' • Nosy much ianterted, as once much belov'd!
Stoke upon Stdii,rdsliire, Dec. 7,1809.

EAST INDIES.

CUICOUF-ADVENTURE.
LCRITTA, MAY 10.—A Pt incets of Nvw Zealand,
onetf the daughters of Tippahec, has arrived within
elese dills. in Calcutta, accompanied by her bus.
an Eng.lisliman of the name of Bruce. As the
adventuressof this couple are curious. and have cx-
cimil a proty general interest, our duty to the Re.wier
71? 317;mr, requirecl that we should collect
someatalientic nutline or their awry ; its principal
p;,;o:s. we believe, are embraced in the subjoined
n.•-rvive

Gcort-e Bruce, son of John Bruce, foreman and
Attic to Mr. Wood, distiller, at Limehouse, was born
in the irtrish of Radcliffe-highsray,in 1779. In 1789
• he entered on board the Royal Admiral East India-
:min, Capra n Bond, as boatswain's boy. Sailed from
EnAind for New South Wales, and arrived at Port
.iacfcsrm in 1791. where, with the consent of Captain
.1.1, he cri7;:ed the sh;p, and remained at New South

•At p,;:t Jackson Bruce entered :nto the naval co-
.l service, and was employed for several years
1,27 Lienttnants Robins, Flinders, and others, in
•„, 1 :in the coasts, surveying harbours, he:A:Hands,
.• i-;, tr.. Miring this time Bruce experienced va-
•.-44- s a iernit•tres, whlch do not come within the de-
' - -.0 his narrative. After being thus employed
7.: vend year; in vessels : survey, he was turned
L - :--) t'.o ady Nolson, Ca . Simmonds, a vessel
(St
-** the express purpnse cf conveying Ti
p-
-1 New :Aland, from a v..;:t, which he
- • ',,vernment of Port Jackson, u. 1•:', own
'1.%,- 7:ng emharkvd, and tie Lady Nelson
. ior !le:. jcs.:tution. During the passage, Tip-
Ts iCa• i"., 1.• 171 '' .1 ,nreronsly ill, and Bruce was ap-
:‘ . •• • • ••• •: iiim ;he acquitted himself so highly
. -. • .- 4acti,:n, that be was honoured aith
'.. • spa ::' fav•mr ; and, on their arrival, the King
.I,:f l‘-‘ 1 that he should he allowed to remain with
:lini at New Z,.• daad, to which Captain Simmonds
r•msented, and Bruce was received into the family of
Tiplialiee.
Bri•ce spent his first few month; in New Zealand
in exploring the country, and in acquiring a know-
ledve of the lan?.:uage, manners, and customs of the
:.eople. lie found the country healthy and pleasant,
:!,11 (1 romantic scenery, agreeably diversified by
Lei's and dales, and covered with -.cond. The pen-
p!..: were hospit able, frank, and opnn ; though rude
and ignorant, yet vorshipping neither images nor
sdols, nor ought that is the work of human hands ;
.4cknowledeing one OMNIPOTENT SUPREME BEING. I
As the King prnposed to place the young Eng-
'a:slim kn at the head of his army, it was a previously
necessary stop that he should be tattowed, as, with-
lat having Imiergone that ceremony, he could not
Ile regraded as a warrior. The case was urgent, and
admitted of no alternative. He therefore submitted
resolutely to this painful ceremony ; and his coun-
tenance presents a master specimen of the art of tat-
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towing.
Bring now tittowel in due form, Bruce was recog-
aised is a warrior of the first rank, naturalized as a
New Zealander, received into the bosom of the King's
and honourA with the hand of the Princess
At:rockoe, the youngest daughter of Tippahee, a
.nniion of 15 or 16 years of age, whose native beauty
wad r.robably been great, but which has been so much
mproved by the fashionable embelkhments of art,
!:at all the softer charms of nature, all the sweetness
f origlnal expression, are lost in the bolder impres-
-:ons of tattowiog.
Bruce now became the chief member of the King's
"ar.4i1,,, and was vestarl with the government of the

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; cr e;9lit months after his marriage, the English
;r.-i.e.tor, the Ferret, South ea whaler, and se.
ce; er English vessels, touched at New Zealand
. and all of them found the beneficial in-
. a countryman and friend at the
. that island. They were liberally
. •.; ti vegetables, &c. Sze.
r and his wife were now contented
itinuy, is the full en;oyment of domestic com-
., s.:;h no wails that were ungratified, blessed
•1 a.•,..1 perfect independence. Bruce
..1 iorward with satisfaction to the progress of
h.:. expected to introduce among
• i • r vviAt whom, by a sirtp,,ular destiny, he
I • dormed to remain during his life. While en-
,. these hors, the ship General Wellesley about
I.'l, months ago, touched at a point of New Zea-
. where &lice and his wife chanced to be. 'This
Ai at sine distance from the King's place of mi.
re. Capta'n Dalrymple applied to Bruce to assist
•^. in pi-Amin:a cargo of spars and benjamin, and
• ;•ie,ted specimens of the principal articles of pro-
of the island, all which was cheerfully done.—
..lin Dalrymple then proposed to Bruce to ac-
-,.•ny him m Ncrth Cape, distant about 25 or 30
• , v.•:.. re it was reported that gold-dust could
• an- Cayet%iii Dalrymple conceived that
. . ruve usaftgl tn Lim in the search for the

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gold-dust. With great reluctance, and seer many
entreaties, Bruce consented to accompeny Captain
D • rymple, under the most solemn assurances of
be lig safely brought back and landed at the Bay of
I lands. He accordingly embarked with his wife
on board the General Wellesley, representing, at the
same time, 'to Captain Dalrymple, the dangerous
consequences of taking the King's daughter from the
island ; but that fear was quieted by the solemn and
repeated assurances of Captain Dalrymple, that he
would, at every hazard, reland them at the Bay of
Islands, the place from which they embarked. Being.
at length all on board, the Wellesley sailed for the
North Cape, whole they soon arrived and landed.
Finding that they had been entirely misinformed as
to the gold-dust, the Wellesley made sail, in order
to return to New Zealand : but the wind becoming
foul, and continuing so for 48 hours, they were driven
from the island. On the third day the wind became
mote favourable, but Captain Dalrymple did not at-
tempt to regain the island, but stood on for India.—
Bruce now gently remonstrated, and rethinded him
of his promises ; to which Captain Dalrymple replied,
" That he had something else to think of than to de-
tain the ship by returning with a valuabie cargo to
the island ; besides, he had another and better island
in view for him."

On reaching the Feegee, or Sandalwood islands,
Captain Dalryrriple asked Bruce if he chose to go on
shore and remain there ? which he declined, on ac-
count of the barbarous and sanguinary disposition of
their inhabitants. Captain Dalrymple desired. that
he would choose for himself; and then took from him
several little presents which be himself and his Offi-
cers had given to him at Nevi Zealand; these now
were given to the natives of the islands in the boats
then alongside the irssel.-
Leaving the Feegee Islands, they steered towards
Soolo,„ visiting-two or three islands in their passage;
but the limits of this narrative do not admit of giv-
ing any account of the occurrences at those places,
though they are not devoid of interest.
After remaining four or five days at Sooloo, they
sailed for Malacca, where they arrived in December
last. At Malacca, Captain Dalrymple and Bruce
went on shore. The latter was anxious to see the
Governor or Commanding Officer, to state his grie-
vances; but as it was late in the evening when he
landed, he could not see him till the following mor-
ning, by which time Captain Dalrymple had weigh-
ed from Malacca Roads, leaving Bruce on shore,
and carrying off his wife on board the Wellesley to
Penang.
Bruce acquainted the Commanding Officer of Ma-
lacca with his case, and expressed his wish to regain
his wife, and to return with her to New Zealand.—
The Commanding Officer endeavoured' to console
him, desired that he would patiently wait at Malac-
ca, for a short time, as some ships might probably
touch there on their passage from Bengal to New
South Wales, by which he would procure a passage
for himself and his wife ; and that, in the mean time,
he would write to Penang, desiring that his wife
should be returned to her husband at Malacca.

After waiting for three or four weeks, accounts
were received of Captain Da:rymple's arrival 'at Pe-
nang ; upon which Bruce obtained the Commanding'
Officer's permission, and left Malacca in the Scourge
gun-brig for Penang, where, upon his arrival, he
(mud that his wife had been bartered away to Capt.
Rois. On waking upon the Governor of Penang,
he was asked what satisfaction he required for the ill
treatment he experienced ? Bruce answered, that all
he wanted was to have his wife restored, and to get
a passage, if possible, to New Zealand. Through
the intf2rference of the Governor, his .rife was resto.
red to him. With her he returned to Malacca, in,
hope of the promised passage to New South Wales ;.
but as there was no appearance of the'expected ships
for that port, he was now promised a passage for him-
self and his wife to England in one of theitomeward-
bound Indiamen from China. By getting to Eng-
land, he.hoped from thence to find a passage to New
South Wales ; but the China ships only anchored in
Malacca Roads for a few hours during the night, so
that he had no opportunity of proceeding by any of
the ships of that fleet. He then entreated the Com-
manding Officer to get him a passage in the Sir Ed-
ward Pellew to Penang, where he hoped to overtake
the Indiamen. A passage for himself and his wife 11
was accordingly provided on board the Pellew ; and
on his arrival at "Penang he found the Indiamen stan-
ding still there; but he could not be accommodated
with a passage to Europe without the payment of
400 dollars. Not having that sum, and without the
means to raise it, he tame on with the Sir Edward
Pellew to Bengal, where he and his wife, the affec-
tionate companion of his distress, have been mast
hospitably received, and where their hardships and
long sufferings will be soothed and forgotten in the
kindness that awaits them. Opportunities will pro-
bably occur in the course of a flew months, of a pas-
sage to New South Wales, from whence they will
find no difficulty in regaining New Zealand.
It was believed that the visit of Tippahee to Port
Jackson had partly for its object to inquire after his
favourite daughter and his son-in-law, who had been
carried so unaccountably from his coasts.
As we were unwilling to interrupt the mum of the
preceding narrative by any matter not immediately
connected with the parties, we reserved for this place.
a short account of the natural productions of New
Zealand ; an account that must be considered as va-
luable, in coming fmin a man long resident in the
country, and who had opportunities of satisfying him-
self on the points to which he speaks.
Bruce, our present informant, relates, that New
Zealand abounds with a great variety of useful tim-
ber, among which are e;ne and the fir—the fo-
rests are of great extent, and may he considered as
inexhaustible. Flax and hemp, which are both indi-
genous to that country, grow in the rtmost profusion.
Immense plains are entirely covered with these plants,
some of which is cultivated, but much the greater
part is of spontanecms growth. The tree producing
the white benjamin, is also found in Tway parts of
the Island.

Mints of different valuable metals are known to
exist in the interior. • Specimens of their ores have
been obtained; but, from.the totatignorance of the
people in metallurgy, orin any 'other alt of civilized
countries, their Trines remain unwrought. Iron ores
are found in great abundance, and with :these the na-
, tives paint both themselves au4 their canoes.
Cabbages, the common Mid the %Wet' potatee,
yams, parsnips, ntralAsiCarraks,' itc, 'nutlik among

Monday night, or early on Tuesday morning, tbe
city of eanterbury public-house, in Primrose-street,
Bishopsgate-street, was entered by scme thieves, who
robbed the bar of Bank notes and cash to a consider-
able amount, and turned the cocks of the spirit casks,
by which means all the liquor run out.

Friday night the counting-house of Mr. William
Moving, brush-manufacturer, in Newcastle, was
broke into, and robbed of bills to the amount of ,e 2.13.
We mentioned a short time since, that the ware-
houses of Messrs. Crosby and White, at Westbury,
were broke open and robbed of superfine cloth, to the
value of £lOOO, which was supposed to have been
perpetrated by three men who had entered the town
that night with a cart of a singular construction ;
the same men were traced to Exeter where they were
apprehended, and a number of implements for house-
breaking lciund• upon them. One of them made his
escape in his shirt. Information thereof was sent
to Bow-street, whence an officer was -sent down, who
traced a note of the Bridgewater Bank, found on one
of the prisoners, to a man named Lloyd, a pedlar, re-
siding at a little town called Cross, in whose house
they found some of the stolen pieces of cloth, whom
also they apprehended and took to Westbury, *here
the other two were previously brought, and: they
were all committed for trial.

Thnots-tatt.—Wednesday William Clad was fully
committed, charged with stealing a Westphalian ham,
the property of Messrs. Addison and Co. provision
merchants, in the Borough. The prisoner was de-
tected coming out of the warehouse, with the ham
under his arm, by Mr. Addison's porter. In his way
to a place olconfi!-wynent the prisoner drew a knife,
and attempted to stab his conductor, but his intention
being discovered, he was fortunately prevented.
Yesterday Mrs. Lalinisre, of Walcot-place, was
summoned to shew cause why she detained a box,
containing wearing apparel belonging to a woman
named Sands, who lately qtAtted her service, when
she brought away the box with her, and left it in the
care of a person in the neighbourhood. On applying
for it shortly after, she found that her lite mistress
had got it into her possession, and refused to deliver
it. Mrs. Lapiniere stated to the Magistrate, that
Sands, whilst in her service, h:td received half-a-crown
from a gentleinan whn lodged in the house, to pur-
chase coals; after she,had quitted, however, it was
discovered that she had not paid for them ; and she
had, therefore, taken possession of the box, as security
for the debt.—Sands acknowledged receiving half-a-
crown; but stated, that she had been directed to em-
play it in purchasing a cold collatha to entertain a fair
friend, who visited him, which she had done.• Under
these circumstances, the Magistrate advised Mrs. La-
pinkie to restore the box, the retaining of which might
probably involve her in much trouble and expence ;
which advice sh. 2 reluctantly agreed to comply with.
QUEEN-SQUARE.—Wednesday IV. illason,late apri-
vate in the Guards, was committed for re-examina-
tion, charged with uttering fictitious Provincial Bank
Notes.

HArTox GAR .—Yesterday ----- Cadman, a
carpenter, was fully committed for a rape on Martha
Gale, aged 17, in an out house, in the Spa-fields.

MARRIED.

Sunday, at Plymouth, J. P. Blewett, Esq. niercl:ant, Ply-
nrntt.hv to Miss Caroline Symons, daughter of the late Peter
,Symons, Esq. of that town.
Wednesday, at St. Mary's, Newington, Surrey, Olinthus Gd-
bert Gregory, LI.. D. of the Royal Military Academy, Wool-
wich, to Miss Beddome, eldest daughter of Boswell Bruidon
Beddorre, Ehq. of Wahvorth.

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their gardett vegetables. They have a plant some-' NO Medicine is so well calculated, or tl.is b ,
what resembling a fern, with a large farinaceous
c!,•11-11ula
'root, which, when roasted, is a pleasant, wholesome,
anxiety
Atrialtswilhlcrovie this,
dand convince even the te.th!,,;
food, and is a most excellent substitute for bread.—
sylinp•lmL'satofs sbcr''.c.p°l-11uti,utir'5t.f. They have also fruit trees, some of which are indige- • adiseaseydo, or theenuF.uwla
nous, others are exotic. The orange and the peach the stomach in children h tatty place. In t:reptive cans:sal S.:lll,vt
have both been introduced from the Cape of Good ' Gout, Rheumatism, and Nervous Irritation ni the ;:t•-gnach f-, Y'
i h";aus affecticns, its kuperinrit y has long been acl:.:oxvlt d- d-2
Hope, and are in a very thriving way. l my genuine Mulichie bits the words, '6 By the 11i7,ek p,,..,.
Breeds of swine and goats have been lately brought esse on the bottle, bill of dlt-ction, a:lk: ow 1;,4,: expr d wra.:n. t,
into New Zealand, and are increasing rapidly. Fish ' and the King's duty, is printed In black ink. S,,lti at the DiSi;',ve,'
they possess in great variety and profusion, anddeiring *ary, No. 15, Soho-square, Loudon, in unall Lortl-s of Cs: c;',
double bottles 10s. and larger 11. Ys. Conipo.a:.l I.sence, t;
all the months of. the year. In the summer season
allay unpleasant irritation, as.
• they are visited by shoals of maskarel ; and, during
the winter, theie coasts are frequented by immense
quantities of herrings.
The island is watered by many fine rivers, which
abound with fish, some of which are well known in
Europe, while others seem peculiar to the countries
in the Southern Ocean. The shores of the rivers and
their lakes are frequented by wild geese and wild
ducks ; but it is remarkable that they have no tame,
web-footed birds. The only quadruped on the land
is a kind .of fox, and their only reptile, a dull slug-
gish lizard.

HEALTH and VIGOUR restored by that most- eecellertllltti:i.-
eine, THE CORDIAL LAINI G:LEAD,
Prepared by Dr. SCLUMON, Ho, se, n-ar Lilerpooi.
r I 'HE CORDIAL BALM 01 GILE;0) has beet;
-I- in repute to the very pinnacle of fame. Universally as it
is resorted to in cases of weakness And emaciation, so also are its
benign and health-restoring qualities universal. Sonte, perhaps,
imacquaiiited with its virtues; not having ',erased that itr.eresting
• 4 Guide,' (which must be few.indeed) may be induced to zat7s
what is the Balm of Gilead fit for? what complaint &O. it cur.?
To ;ismer this it will be necessary to
" Holdup the Mirror to nature."
Let those who are afflicted in the following manner refl-ict
j the *use that produced suchlavoc upon the " w!tolrsotre_ ~v;7
and appetites of life." Disordered stomach, dry cough, av,:akuess
of the voice, hoarseness, shortoees of the breath uoon tht• leatt
exercise, and relaxation of the wholes) stem. '1 hose Atcted
paleness, languor of the eyes, weakness of sight or memory, si.0;;;1
take time to consider Linmeusisqvice, " that youth is the imp-.
tant period of forming a robust constitutioa," and that " not',:ng
Is to be dreaded so much as premature excess.' The fourstkati..ti
of a happy old age is a good constitution in youth; tempert-t
and moderation at that age hr. passports so. bcppy grey
Nothing can be better described than ha tits words of Atrastru
--s—••••••••••••" For wain of timely care
Nlillicns have died of medicable wounds."
1 For such as these, then, this healing- Palm is suitable—CA:.
plaints stifled under the cameleon appellation of nervous and
sumptive, are its proper climax ; the one it will eradicate—its
other will be cured by its Influence. The Balm of Gilead Ls
produced more good in this country than any medicine since lac
formation of a Materia Medics.
' Sold by all respect:Cele Medicine Venders in the United Kin.lota