Star.
London, England, 1817-01-10 00:00:00

TFI doYoo rkpEnitroM

The detailed aeCounts of the expedition ió ekplOre
the river Conn, Zstre, have reached the Admi-
ralty. Melancholy as the result has been, from the
great mortality of the Officers and men, owing to ex-
cessive fatigue, rather than t tl e effects of climate,
the journals of Cytain TIMM and the Gentlemen
in the bCielitifiC deeartments are, it is said, highly in-
teresting and satisfactory, as far as they go; and we
believe they extend eonsklerahly beyond the first
Rap,ds or Cataract. It would seem, indeed, from
the extract of a letter from the S.itgt..on Of the CONGO,
insertti helnw, that the mortality was entirely owing
to the land iturney beyond these rapids, and that
Captain Tuckev died of c implete exhaustion, alter
leaving the liver, and not from fever. The climate,
we und-rst snd, was remarkably fine; scarcely a
shower of rain, or any humidity in the atmosphere,
and the sun seldom shbling out but for a few hours
in the middle of the day; Fahrenheit's thermometer
seldom exceeding 76 degrees by day, and never de-
scending below 60 degrees at night—such a climate,
in fact, as one would wish to live in : but an anxious'
zeal and over-eagerness to accomplish the aljects of
the expedition, and to acquire all the information
that could possibly be obtained, seem to have ac-
tuated every one, from the lamented Commander to
the common seaman and private marine, and led
them to attempt more than the human constitution
was able to bear. The total number of deaths
amounts to IR, of which 14 were on the land expedi-
, tion. They consist of

Cat•taii. l'uckey, Com.nantLr of the Eapeditlon ; Lieutettant
Hawkey, Lieutenant of the Congo; Mr. Professor Smith, Bata-
niw ; Mr. l'odor, Comparative Anatomist; Mr. Cranch, Collec-
tor of objets of Natural History; Mr. Galwey, a friend of
Captain lackey, who volunteered from pure love of science; and
Mr. Eyre, the Purser.
The names of the remainder have not been re-
turned.

The Dorothy transport which accompanied the
CONOO into the river lost but one, man, and he tell
overboard and was drowned.

RETRACT OF A LETTER FROM M. MACKERROW, SUR-

GEON OF THE CONGO,

" Of the eighteen who died in the river. fourteen
had been on shore, marching for some time, and
were fir advanced before reaching the ship.
" Professor Ssarrii, who saw many of them when
taken ill, gave to some a dose of calomel, but to
others nothing had been administered.
" The fever appeared in rime degree contagions,
as all the attendants orb the sick were attacked,
and before we left the river it pervaded nearly the
whole crew, also some of the transport's; bot as for
myself, although constantly among them, I did not
feel the slightest indisposition until we left the coast,
when I was attacked ; however, I considered mental
anxiety and disturbed rest As dire sole causes.
" Captain TUCKEY had been afflicted many years
with chronic hepatitis ; and on returning from travel-
ling Jae wed: on shore, he was so excessively re-
duced, that all attempts to restore the energy of his
system proved ineffectual.
" Mr. TUDOR was in the last stage of fever before
I saw him, as were Messrs. CHANCHand Gamey.
" Professor SMITH died in two days after he came
under my care, during which time he refused every
thing, whether as nutriment or medicine.
Lieutenant HAWKIIT was taken ill after leaving
the river, and died on the fourth day ; his case was
rather singular; symptoms were irritability of sto-
mach, with extreme languor and debility, but he had
neither pain nor lever.
" Mr. Eves had a violent fever, and on the third
day breathed his last: before death a yeflow suffu-
sion had taken place, with vomiting of matter like
coffee ground."

Letters of the 4th of November from Guadaloupe
represent that island as still labouring under great
rekness., There had been, and was still continuing,
a great mortality amongst all persons newly arrived.
The following is the extract of a letter written by
a person 01 respectability in Curagoa, under date of
the 17th November, addressed to A mercantile house
in JafflAiCa :

" By a former letter of the 18th July you were in-
formed of my misfortunes at Ocumare, since when
I have been silent. owing to my not having before
received any information that bore the character of
truth. By the arrival of a schooner fro.n Puerto
Cavello on the 14th instant, we learn, that the Spa.
niards themselves assert, but with caution. that the
whole of the Eastern part of Venezuela is in the pos-
session( of the Republican troops. Some of them be
lieve that Morales was made prisoner, on Cameos
being taken possession of by the Patriots. others, that
he was killed in an action between him and Monagas,
three leagues before his entrance into Barcelona.
" Quern (a Royalist Officer of high rank) arrived
at La Guira, mortally wounded. The Spanish emi-
grants from Barcelona, who consisted of some women
and wounded troops, arrived at La Guira on the 14th
in a brig. two schooners, a number of launchesland
I boats, and reached Puerto Cavello on the 9th, 10th,
and llth of this month. Sir Gregor M'Gregnr is in
possession of the vallies of Arajua, having with him
an army of 2000 men.
" Yesterday there arrived at this port a schooner,
in four days, passage from Martinique, and confirms
that all the easter n part of Venezuela is occupied by
the Republican troops, and that there is not a single
Spaniard to be found in that quarter. By letters
from St. Thomas and Tortola, as well as information
received here from Maracaibo, we learn that Morillo
is in Coeur, as some say, with 50(X) men, marching
for CinaCCAS ; that the troops of the interior of New
Granada have fallen upon ?omen, and united with
tirose which Cabal had, have taws all the Province
of Antioqua and Socarro ; that the Royalists do not
possess any ground than that upon which their troops
actually stand, and that Cabal had marched upon
Morillo. The truth is, that the Spaniards in every
part of South America find themselves very much
pressed, and repent they ever cams to the country.
" On the morning of the lOtb instant, a schooner
appeared in front of this place, and it is inferred that
she had some to inform this Government that Ls
Guira was blockaded by the Republicans. By what
we ehn discern, and the information we have receiv-
led, it is expected that the evacuation of Le Guira
will take plate story moment."