Star.
London, England, 1815-12-16 00:00:00

MUTINtERS OF TIM Bomar.

The following particulars respecting the descendants
of the survivors of these men (copied from the ever.
ter& Review) cannot fail to be perused with great in.
terest by all our Readers
It is well known that in the ypat 1789, his Ma-
jesty's armed vessel the Bounty, while employed in
Iconveying the bread.fruit,tree from Otaheite to the
West Indibs, was run away by her men, and the
Captain and some of his officers put on board a boat,
which after a passage of 1.200 leagues, providentially
arrived at 1 Dutch settlement on the island of Tisnor.
The mutineers, twenty.five in number. were sup-
posed, from some expressions which escaped them
w..en the launch was turned adrift, to have made sail
towards Otaheite. As soon as this circumstance was
known to the Admiralty, Captain Edwards was or.
dered to proceed in the Pandora to that island, and
entfoavour to discover anti bring to England the
Bounty, with such of the crew as he might be able
to secure. On his arrival in March, 1791, at
tavai-bay, in Otaheite, tour of the mutineers Came
voluntarily on board the Pandora to surrender them-
selves ; and from information given by them, ten
others (the whole number alive upon the island)
were, in the course of a few days, taken; and, with
the exception of four, who perished in the wreck of
the Pandora, near Endeavour Straight, conveyed to
England for trial before a Court•martial, which ad-
judged six of them to suffer death, and acquitted the
other futin

From the accounts given by these men, as well as
from some documents that were preserved, it ap-
peared that as soon as Lieutenant Bligh bad been
driven from the ship, the twenty-five mutineers pro.
ceeded with her to Toobouai, where they proposed
to settle ; but the place being found to hold net little
encouragement, they returned to Otaheite, and hav-
ing there laid in a large supply of stock, they once
more took their departure fur Toobouai, carrying
with them eight men, nine women, and seven boys,
natives of o:alteite.

They commenced, on their second aerial, the
building of a fort, but by divisions among them-
selves, and quarrels with the natives, the design was
abandoned. Christian, the leader, also very arm
discovered that his authority over his accomilices
was at an end ; he therefore proposed that they
should return to Otaheite ; Chat as many as chose
it should be put on shore at that island, and that
tne rest should proceed in the ship to any other place
they might think proper. Accordingly they once
more put to sea, and reached Matavai on the 10th
September, 1789.
Here sixteen of the twenty-five desired to be land-
ed. fourteen of whom, as already mentioned, tA tare
taken on board the Pandora ; of the other two, as
reported by Coleman (the first who surrendered him-;
self to Captain Edwards), one had been made a
Ctiiet, killed his companion, and was shortly after-
wards murdered himself by the natives.
Christian, with the remaining eight of the muti.!
neers, having taken on board several cf the natives
of Otah:ite, the greater part won:ca, put to sea on
the night between the :list and 22. ii Sep:enther, lisfit;l
in :he morning the ship was discovered from Pointl
Venus, steering in a north-westerly direction; and
here terminate the am unts given by the mutineers
who welt; either taken or surrendered themselves at
M..tavai-bay. They stated, however, that Christian,
on the tiight tit hit; departure? was heard to declare,
tn.tt lie should seek for some uninhabited island, a.id
having established his party, break up the ship ; but.
all endeavours of Captain Edwards to gain inttlli.
gene* either of the ship or tier crew at any of toe nu-
merous islands visited by ilia Pandora, failed.
From this period, no information respecting Chris-
:ian or his companions reached g nglod for twenty
years ; when, about the beginning of the.yeav 1009.
Sir ..idney Smith, then p onunaadervin-Chief on the
Brazil station. transmitted to the Admiralty a paper,
which he bad received from Lieutenant Fetzmautice,
purporting to be an Is gums from the log-book of
Captain }Wager, of the American ship 'ropily," and
dated as Valpar.iiso? 10th October, 180 b."
About the roonneneemmt of .the present year,
Rear-Admit-1i J-L'thain, when cruizing off New Lon-
don, received a letter addiessvd to the Lords of the
Adu;f:.. I ky, of which the following is a copy. toge-
ther with the azimuth compass, to which it refers:
" Nantucket, March I, 1513.
"My Loeb.— The remarkable eircumstauce which took place
on my last voya:c to the Pacific Ocean, will, 1 trust, plead my
apology for addressing your Lordships at thi4 time. In February,
!.sOs, I touched at Pitcairn% Wendt iu lar. 2:42. S. 10ng.130.W.
from Greenwich. My princ•pal object my, to peocure seal skins
fur the Chum market ; and from the accouut Liven of the islaad
in exenaal Carteret's sops's., I suppin.ed It seal uninhabited; but,
on approachies the shore in toy boat, I was met by three young
rum 4n a double cantle. with a present, cousisting of some fruit
and a hog. l'hey sear to me In the Enghsh language, and in-
(mined me that they were born on the island, and their father
was sn Englishman, who had sailed with Captain thigh.
After ilis:l,mitat; with them a short time, I leaded with
them, and !amid an Englishman} of the came of Alexander
smith, who inflamed me that he pas one of the Bounty's crew,
and that alter putting Captain Bligh in the boat, with half the
;hip's company, they returned to Otaheite, where part if their
crew chose to tally, bait Mr. Christian, with eight others, in-
cluding himself, preArred goiog to a more remote place; ands
after making a abort stay at Otahehe, where they ,tuoit wives and
Six men eurvants, they proceeded to Pitcairn's Island. where they
destroyed the ship, after taking every thing out of her which
thsy thuught would be useful to them. About six years after
they lauded at this place, their servants attacked and killed all
the English, exceptil the informant, and he was severely
%melded. the same night, the Otaheitan widows arose and
murdered all their countrymen, leaving Smith with the widows
and children, where he had resided ever since without being re-
slued.

" I remained bat a short time on the island, and on leaving
Smith presented me a time-piece, and an azimuth compass,
which he told me belonged to the Bounty. The time-keeper was
taken Irons me by the Governor of the island of Juan Fernan-
dez; after I had it in my pensession abut six weeks. The com-
pass I put in repair cu board my ship, and made use of it on my
liontess and pass age, : is.ce which a new card has been put to it by
an instranteni-ntaker in Boston. I now forward It to your Lord-
ships, thinking there will be a kind of satisfaction in receiving
it, mete!) Ginn the extraordinary circumstances attending it.
(tigited) " MA VIILW f01.9a11."
Nearly ahnli,t thu same time, a further account of
these interestirtA people was received Innis Vice Ad-
miral Dixoll, in a letter addressed to him by Six
Thomas Staines, of hi. Majesty's ship BltyrON, of
which
.the folluwin„s* is; copy :

" 11 ' riton Valparaiso, .Oct. IS, 1814.
" SIR—I hare the honour to inform you, that on my passne
from the !Marquesas Wands to this port, on the morning of the
17th of ti.plember, I &II in with an island where none is laid
down in the Admiralty, or other charts, according to the several
chronometers of the Briton and '18895. I therefere hove to,
until day-light, and then closed to ascertain whether It was las.
1 hired, Wilda 1 soon dief,ovetcd k to be, wad to toy Feat asool,o-
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meat, fosnd that every Individual on the faladd (40 in maker), I
. spoke very good English. They proved to to the dewendants of
the deluded crew of the Bounty, which, frbm Otaheite. pro-
ceeded to the above-mentioned island, where the ship was burnt.
" Chriselan appeared to have been the leader and the sole
cause of the mutiny la that ship. A venerable old mantnamed
John Adams! is the entY surviving Englishman of those who
last qnitted (Width in he;, and whose exemplary conduct arid
fatherly caa-roof the whole little colony, could not but command
admiration. The pines manner in which all these born in the
island have been reared, the correct senie of religion which has
beet' iit•tilled into their young minds by this old man, has eiven
him the pre.enainence over the whole of them, to whom they
Iciok up as the father of Ike whole and one family.
" .1 son of Christietes was the first born on the island, now
about 25 years of age (tinned Thursday October Christian); the
elder Chrbitian fella sacrifice to the jealousy of an o;aheitan
man, within three ec four years after their arrival on the island.
They were accompanied thithir by six Otaheitan men and twelve
women ; the former were all swept away by desperate contentions
betwien them and the Englishmen, and aye cf the latter have
died at different periods, leaving at present only one man and
several women of the original settlers.
" Time island must undoubtedly be that called Pitcairn's, al-
though erroneously Laid down in the charts. We had the meri-
dian sun close to it, which gave us 25 deg. 4 ndn S. lat. and 130
deg. 25 min. W. lone. by chronometers of the Briton and Tagus.
" It is abundant in yams, plantains, hogs, goats, and fowls,
but affords no shelter tor a ship or vessel of any desaiption ; nei-
ther coul 1 a ship water there without great cLificulty.
" I cannot refrain from offering my opinion that it Is well
worthy the attention of our laudable religious societies, particu-
larly that for Propagating the Christian Religion, the whole of
the inhabitants speaking the Otakeitan tongue as well as English.
4' During the whole of the time they have been on the island,
only one ship has ever eommunicered with them, which took
place about six years since, by an American ship alled the To-
paz, of Boston, ?slayhew Fulcer, Master.
" 'the island is cotuu:vely iron-hound with roelty shores, and
landing in boats, at times difficult, :(though safe to appro..ch
within a short distance in a ship.
(Aped) " T S fASN LS."
• There was tio such name in t:v Bounty's el.:Ay; he must
have assumed it in lien cf his real name, Ales aridor Smith.
We have been favoured with some further piirticu-
lars of this singular suiety, witidr, we doubt not,
will interest tint- Readers as much as they have our-
selves. As the real position of the island was asct.r.
taiited to be su fur distant from that in which it is
osnally laid down is the charts, and a:, the Captains
of the Briton and Tagus seem to have stilrconsdered
it as uninhabited, they were no: a little surprised, on
approaching its shores, to behold plantations regu-
larly laid cct, and huts or houses more neatly con-
structed than tho,:e oa die Marquesas Island:, When
about two miles from the shore, same natives were
observed blinginlT down their canoes on their thoul-
ders, dashing ihrongh a heavy surf, and pleldling off
to the ships ; but their astonishment was unbounded
on healing one of them, on approaching the ship,
out in the En?,lish laril,:trage, 44 Won't you heave
us a rope, now ?" .• _ _

The first man who got on board ahe B:iton soon
preeed sv!s) they wsre. llis name, he said, was
'lsliatsdas Octsber Christian, the first-born on the
island. fie was then absut five-and twenty years of
tine, and is descrif,ed as a tine young man, about six
feet high, his hair deep black, his countenance open
And interesting, of a brownish cast, but free from that
mixture of a reddish tint which prevails on
itlands ; his only dress was a piece of cleth,
ruond his loins, and a straw hat, ornamented with
the black feathens of the domestic fowl. 44 With a
gnat s:eue of gu(J bunions." says Captsin Pipon,l
" ti were glad to tract in his benevolent counte-
nance all the featsses rf ;.n honest English face."-
4, 1 must confess," he Loaa;hacs, " I could not sur-
vey this interesting person without feelings ef tender-
ness and cnnipaiorbi." His companion was named
George Young, a tine youth of seventeen or eighteen
yeses of age.
if the astonishment or the Captains was great on
hearing their first salutation in English, their sur-
prise and interest wete not a little increased on Sir
Thomas Staines taking the youths below, and set-
ting before them something to eat, when one of them
rose up, and placing his hands together in a posture
of devetiqn, distinctly repeated, and in a pleasing
tone and manner...." For what we are going to re-
ceive, the Lorna make us truly thankful."
Taus, expressed great surprise on seeinis a cow on
board the Briton, and were: in denbt whether the was
3 Teat goat or a horned sow.
'The two Captains of his Majesty's ships accompa-
nied these young insit on slime. With some diffi-
culty, and a good wetting, and with the assistance
of their conductors, they accomplished a landing
through the surf, and wese soca after met by John
Adams, a man between fifty and silty years of age,
who conducted them to his house. His wife accom-
panied hint, is very old lady, blind with age. He
was at tirst alarmed, lest the visit was to apprehend
him. Itit on being told that they were perfectly ips-
norant nf his existence, ,he was relieved from his
anxiety. Being once assured that this visit was of a
peaceible nature, it is impossible to describe the joy
these poor ptople manifes:ed on sceiv those %shorn
they were pleased to considsr as their countr;.nisn.
Yams, cocoa-nuts, and other fruits, with line fresh
eggs, were laid before them; and the (Id man would
have killed and dressed a hog for his visitors, but
time would nut allow them to partake of his intended
feast.

This interesting new colony, it seemed, now c;;n.
sisted of about torty-six persons, mostly grown up
young people., besides a number of ilifara::. The
young men, all born on the island, were very atbie-
tic, and of the finest forms—their countenances open
and pleasing, indicating much benevolence argil good;
ness of heart ; but the young women were objects of
particular admiration, tall, robust, and beautifully
formed, their faces beaming with smiles and unturned
good humonr,*but wearing a degree of modesty and'
bashfulness that would do honour to the most vir-
tuous nation on earth ; their teeth, like ivory, were
regular and beautifu, without a single exception r
and all of them, both male and female? had this,
most marked gnglisli features.
The cloThing of the young females consisted of a
piece of linen reaching from the waist to the knees,.
and generally a sort of mantle thrown loosely over,
the shoulders, and hanging as low as the alleles; but
this covering appeared to,he intended chiefly as a pro-,
,section against the sun and the weather, as it was Ire.'
'quently laid aside-and then the upper part of the,
body was entirely exposed, and it is not possible to
conctive more beautiful forms than they exhibited.,
They sometimes wreath caps or bonnets for the head,
in the most tasty 'manner, to protect the face from
the rays of the sun; and though, as Captain Pipon
observes, they Nava only had the instruction of the'
Otaheitan mothers, " opr dress-makers in London
would be delighted with the simplicity. *ad het Ae-
gant tastes of these untaught feilales:
Thiir ASO; modesty, Itisifled by s pm" !oast!
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of religion anti mordjity, instilled into their ycnthfut
minds by .lohn Adams, has hitherto preserved these
interesting people perfectly 'chaste, and free from all
kinds of debauchery. Adams Assurea the viJims,
that since Christian's death there had not beet-
single instance cf any young woman proving un-
chaste, nor any attempt at seduction on the p.:rt of
the men. They all labour while young in the culti.
vAtion of the ground, and when possessed cf t sue.
cient quantity of cleared 1 and and Of stock to malit•
twin a family, they are allowed to marry, but always
with the consent cf Adams, who unites them by a
sort of marriage ceremony of his own.
The greatest harmony prevailed in this I:ttle so.
ciety ; their only quarrel, and these rarely I:4lpeneci,
being, according to their own txpe:;si(iii, yiari els
of Um maith s" they are lioneht in their
which consist of bartcrinz rticLs clu•
fuel Accommodation.

Their habitations are extremely neat. The little
village of Pitcairn forms a pretty sertare, the • houses
at the upper end of which are occupied by the patri.
arch, John Adams, and his family, couse:,;:ng os his
old blind wife, and three daughters from fifteen to
eighteen years of age, and a boy of eleven ; a davit.
ter of his wife by A former husband, as.d a sea in.
law. On the opposite side is the dwelling of nurs-.
day October Christiao; and in the centre is a smooth

verdant lawn, on which the poultry are let loose.
fenced in so as to prevent the intrusion of the do:Ise:-
tic quadrupeds.
All that was done was obviously undertaken on a
settled plan, unlike to any thing to be met with oat
the other islands. In their houses too they lird a
good deal of decent furniture, consisting of beds laud
upon bedsteads, with neat covering ; they had also
tables, and large chests to cont.tia their valuaLles
and clothing, which is made from the h Irk of . a cer-
tain tree, prepared chiefly by the elder Otalwitan fe-
males. Adams's honse eonsisee.3. of t::) rooms, and
the windows had shutters to poll to at night. The'
younger part of the sex are, as befo:e stated, em-
ployed with their brothers, under. Ote 6irection of
their common fa:tt.r, Adams, in the culture of the
ground, which cucoa.huts, bananas, the
bread-fruit-tree, y..no, sweet potat,:es, mid turnips.
!ley have also plenty ui hogs and goats. 'rhe.
woods ::bound with a species et wild hog, and the
coasts of the island with sever.il kinds of good fish. •
Their agticultur.ll im;.:leriwzits are rnas.l.,e by them•
selves from the fret: supplied by the Euer.ty,
with great labour, they twat out into spades, hatchets.
B,:c. This was ant all. The good Old man kept a
regular journals, in which was entered the nature and
quantity of work perforated by each tatnily, what
each had received, and what was due on account:-
Tieere was, it seems, besides private procerty, a sort
of general stock, out of which articles were issued on
Account to the several members of the community ;
and 1.0.- mutual accommodation, exchanges of one
kind of provision for another %vete very frequent, as
Atilt for fresh provisions, vegetables end fruit for haul.
try. ti,h, &c.; al,o, when the steles of ono family. -
were low, or wholly erpended, a fresh sni:•,-ly was
raiied from another. or nut of the general stock. to
be rernid wht-Ja muse ta vourahle ;
All of which were carefully noted down in ionit
,tidams's Journal.

40t what was mot gratifyiog 01 to the visitors
was the simple and unaffected manlier in crilich they
returned thanks to the Amaiours.fir she many bles-
sings they enjoyed. They never failed to say grace
before and atter meals, to pray every waning at
and they frviluently repeated the Lout's
Prayer and thg Creed. " It WAS truly ph sing,"
says Captain Pipon, to see these poor people so
well disposed, to listen so attentively to moral in-
struction, to believe in the attiibutes of Goo, and so
place their reliance oe Divine goodness." The Jay
on which the two Captains landed was S4tlllllY 1!le
17th September; but by Jahn Adams'; acc,lunt it
was Sunday the iStii, and they were kreping the
Sabbath by Taking it a day of tei:t and of pi.syee....-
This w.ts occasioned by the Doenty having pr. ;ceded
thither by the eastern route, on 4 our frizates haying
go o to the westward ; an:,l the Topaz found them
right according to his own reckoning, sin:having alsO
approached the island from the eastward. Every
ship from Europe proceeding to pitcairree island
round the Cape of Good Hope will End them a day
later.—As those who approach Owns rouni Cape
Horn, a day in advance, as was the case with Co-
tain Folger and the Captains 444 T. stainef and
pieTte visit of the Topaz is of coarse, as a notable
circumstance, mai ked down in John Adams's Joni..
nal. The first ship that approached off the island
was on the t.lth December, 1M; but as she did not
approach the land, they could not make out to While
nation she belonged. A secoud appeared some time
after, but did not attempt to communicate with theM.
A third came sufficiently near to see the natives and
their habitations, hut did not attempt to send a boat
on shore ; whi:h is the les, surprising; causidering
the uniform tuggedness of the coast, the total want
of slieher, and the almost constant and violent freak-
ing of the sea against the cliffs. The geod old man
was anxious to know what was going on in the cla
world, and they had the ;twins of gratifying hi: ca-
riosity by supplying him with some raga nines and
modern publicatiotts. His I;brary consisted of the
books that belonged to Admiral Bligh, but the visi-
tors had not time to inspect them.
They inquired particularly after FletcherCliiitaian.
This ill.feted young man, it seems, was never harpy
after the rash and inconsiderate Step which f. h:id
taken ; he became sullen and morose: and practised
the very same kind cat conduct towzrels his cornpa7
&liens in guilt which he and they so loudly compltNi-
ed against in their late Commander. Disappointed
in his expectations at Otaheite, and the Friet:.lly
lslandf, and most probably threading a discovery,
this &laded youth committed himself and his re-
maining confederates to the mere chance of Hog
cast upon same desert island, and chance threw theta
on that of Pitcairn. 'Finding no anchorage near it,
he ran the ship upon the rocks, cleared her of the
live stock and other articles which they had been
supplied with at Otaheite, when he set her on fire,
that no trace of inhabitants might be visible, and all
hope of escape cut off from himself and his wretched
followers. He soon however disgusted ?oth his own
countrymen and the Otaheitans, by his Oppressive
'and tyrannical conduct ; they divided int'opartiepa
aid disputes and affrays and murders were. she gig'.
we .
acquence. His chaheitan wife died ?within 1? MlArly

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Month froth theislariditrO, after which he carried off
one that b-longeit to Se Otitheitan man, who watch-
ed for an opportunity of taking revenge, and shot
him doad while digging in his own field. Thus ter,.
urinated the miserable exi:tence of this deluded young
man, who was-neither deficient in talent nor energy,
nor in connexions, and who nriOit have risen in the
service, add become an ornament to his profession.
John Adams declared, as it was natural enough
he should do, his abhorrence of the crime in which
he was implicated, and said that he was sick at the
time in his hammock : this, we understand, i 8 not
true, thoti:or not partieol.nli active in the
mutiny : he ezi.:,••• A Lhe ut now willingness to sur-
render himself 1; • taken to Eieedand ; indevd, he
rather scene d to have An iiiliuAtuln to revisit his
11AtiVe CoillItt), 1101 tit ' s'c'ull,? Men Aid Vegiinem
Ckl mind him, and 1t.',113 and en:re:ales be4:,ed
that ono protector not he taken
iron, them, for wichorit bun they o..tkt Irish. it
would have Leen an act of the
to reinove hint ir.-m the island ; and it is ne-
cess..ry to ad.l that SirThona, :itaines lent a willing
ea. I.trii euitreaties, thinkini4, d,tibt, as we feel
sti iiis.,.scLe.', to think, that it he were even
sa.,tring the r: oar his c.oe :aid success in in-
stilling religion and moral principles into tL• minds
of this .t dig and imeresting society, have, in a great
deg-e.. emed his I,,rmer crimes.
about six mires long by three broad,
covered with wood, and the soil. of course, very rich,
situ ,red u:.der the partlle.l of '23 L. deg. S. latitude;
and in the mid.t of r:uch a wide expanse of ocean,
the climate must be floe, and admirably adapted for
the recev Orin of ail the vegetable productions of every
part of the babitahle globe. Small, therefore, as
Pitcairn's Island may appe ir, there can be little
doubt that it is capable of suppiltirg
tants, and the present stork beieg of so good a de-
scription, we trust they will ma he negketed. In
the course of time the Patriarch must go hence ; and
we think it would be exceedingly desirous that the
British nation should prdvide for such an event, by
sendaig out, not an ignorant and idle evangelical
missionary, but some zealous and intelligent instruc-
tor, together with a few persons cap tble of teaching
the useful trades or professions. On Pitcairn's Island
there are better materials to we!:: upon than missio.
statics have yet been so fortunate as to meet with,
and the best results may to isonably be exoected.—
Something we are bound to do fir these btruneless
and interesting people. The articles recemmended
by Captain Pipon appear to be highly proper—cook-
ing utensils, implements of i:gr;culture, maize, or the
Indian corn, the orange tree Ir.‘m Valp lraiso, bibles,
rayerlio•ks, and a proper selection of other books,
iniplem,•:,ts w, icing,
Th • visitors plied tio'm with tools, kettles, and
oth, r toiL!: a , ;he surf would permit
Ltt, t., Ito great ext. ut : many things
are wanting. Pitcairn's Isi4ti.l Eel Ins to be so
fort o: 7,1 by n :titre a.. 'V opp-se an invincible barrier
to ;:; enemy ; there is 1.0 v::1:1;: a boat
can laud with satety, :tn? i.or tn.-4e 11.1i1 one
where i: can land ; an evetl.itio,.; swell ,if the
ocean rolls on every side, ard brea!:,. inn' foam .:;ainst
its rocky and iron..!iound 0!!, hap,iy
happy in your segue:acted state ! May n., civii:zcd
h.ithariiin lay waste your peaceful abodes: no hoary
proficient in ,:vii ish sensnality rob you of that inno-
eve- siropiicity which it is peculiarly your pre-
ISM lot to enj.,y

3.'11N WESLEY WILLIAMS► Esq• of 13, Daniel-streets
Portse I, will re-open his former Courre of Lectures
on Experimental Philosophy the ensuing month, for
which we sincerely hope he will meet with much suc-
cess, being so eminent a young man.
PATENT TWINE CLOTII.—The Patentee of this use-
ful invention wishes it to be particularly noticed, to
prevent the possibility of mistake, that it is made of
pure foreign Cotton, indepeadent of any other article
whatever, and manufactured by steam only on a ma.
thematic:a principle. The comfort of its wear, its
utility, and economy, is established. The Public are
respectfully informed, it is sold, duly stamped by the
Patentee, at the East India Warehouses, No. 16,
Cheapside, and no whore else, in Pieces tor Sheeting,
as well as those for Gentlemen's wear and family use;
and where the first fabrics of Irish, Scotch, Russia,
and H inibtogli Linens, are also snld at the Whole.
sale Prices, by the entire Case, or the single Piece.

Ronnzny Os. zuc Namatirtv BANK.— We ueder-
stand, that though Pearkes, the Low-street officer,
has been using the greatest exertions in dthrent parts
of the country, he has not been ably to recov. r the
property stal-n, or to iktect the robbers. All the cir•
eulation of the stolen notes, which Pearkes has been
able to trace, has heel at the Abingdon Banks, where
they were uttered to ittiiit an hour of the time when
the robbery was discovered at Newbury. On Monday
morning early, when it was the fair at Abingdon, a
man went into Ci.ipps and Co's. Bank, dressA as a
countryman, enured into conversation with the Clerk
about the fair, observing that it was likely to prove
a very good one; said, he was a dealer in cattle, in.
tented to make a large pu-chase at the fair, bur that
it so happened, he had a great many Nets bury B
Kites, which the farmers would net like so well as
the it own town notes, and ask...d the Cier! to change
them for him, w ich he very niatfily co:ftpbed with,
to the amount of .C:3.5(). Toe same man, from his
descripiii-n, went to thm bank of tNlessis. Knot) ::rid
Co's. a Abingdon, and with a sim 1 if- praence, pro-
cured the Lxchange of Newbury Bark-onus to the
amount of fe.ioo. He gave his name at both places
as Thomas Wi.iiams, of Oxford, and callin;; himself,
a cattl..-dealer. I.!luiries hate be. of made, but
1;0 such man coul.t be found. Mc:isrs. Vincent, Tan-
iter,larnes, and Hancock, the Proprietors of :tie
Ni.oshiiiy Batik, have issued ni)ticcs to the-ir friends
and the public, informing Cent of tint robbery, and
cautioning them against ieceiving or exchanging any
a their eitcul.ir notes, to pevent, it pi:Lsible, the c;r-
cuiation of their notes that were scot :9- They also
ennounc,e, that they are under the disagreeable neces-
sity of stopping payment for the present.
Eight and thirty extents have, it is reported, been
issued aping the Collecwrs of the King's taxes, in
Berkshii e, .ind their securities, in consequence of the
extraordinary robbery and stoppage of the Newbury
Bank, which unfortunately took place the d pre-
vious to the money, which had been lodged there,
bung paid into the panda: of the Receiver•Creneul for
the county.