Star.
London, England, 1817-10-11 00:00:00

MASbdCRE Al NkW ZEIMIND.

The following interesting particulars respecting the
massacre of the crew of the Boyd, are extracted from
the Narrativs of at Yoyeze to New Zealand, by J. L.'
NJUIOLAS, Esq..—
The Boyd was a ship of /500 tops, commanded by
Captain J. Thompson, which was chartered by Gon
arum:tut in 1809, to take out couricts to Botany
Bay ; when, hiving completed that business, she em-
!larked a number of passengers, and proceee!ed t,.,
New Zealand for a cargo cf timber. The acc.uo:
which follows was given by the principal :actor iii thin
bloody tragedy: his flame was George, and he Wit:
Chief of the savage tribe of Watigeroa :
George (says` Mr. Nicholas) stated, that himselt
and another ofhis countrymen being together at Poi.:
Jackson, they both agreed with Capt. Thomp►on i.
work their passage to their own country. It haPpeii
edt he said, however, that he was t ►ken to ill himself
deli..g•the voyage, a. to be utterly incapable of doing
lOtis duty ; which the
.Captain ant believing to. be the
CR* said •Imputing his inability to work rather to
haiilbilitimin iAdisisositimx, he *ar threatened, insult-
' "'

He wood not acknowledge-to es that he eirnself
ingested this harbour to the Captain as the meat
convenient place for him to take to his cargo, tOeuglis
from hit evasive answers, I am lolly *puree:ad.:4lle
decoyed hilt into it. The ship being now anchored
in kis own harbelor, the Captain, he iiirornied us, aette
his, on shore, having first stripped him of every thing
English he bad Are; lean, to the very clethiet Imbed
on, which were also taken from him j so that be was
received by his countrymen almost in a state et no.
dity. T. these he instantly related Ali his hardships,
and .he ialiuman treattuent he had received on board;
whiles enr.ged at the detail, they unotem •usty in-
sisted en tevenge, and nothing short of toe destruc-
tion of the Captain and the crew, and t:Atii.g !•obte6.,
sion cf the vessel, could saviely Weir tiny. This be
promised to do, and the work Of shill/leer was floe
about to canon lice, white • the devoted victims- re-
metned unconscious atm infernal •project. The
prudence and temerity of Captain Thompson assisted
that vengeance which his misconduct had. reused, and
were now displayed is tun evident a manner. Never
once reflecting no the chewier of the savegrs, whose
faiourhe passion is revenge, and. not 'considettng that
his own tyranny had pr'.vuked the most signal retalie.
uon that could be taken, he had the rashness to leave
the ship unprotected, and taking a boas crew with
him, proceeded to the store, weere horde of eut.
ragerms cau:.ibals stood prepared Un- his destruction.
Tneduration olden, ire gest)! %vestibule. licked scarcely
landed, wriest he was knocked down and murdered by
Tipplookee and his sailors unhappily sharing the gamy
fate, were all stripped by the barbatiansi Sabo untie=
dialely appeared dre.t.ed in the cl;lthes tit their victims,
414 went on to the ship to complete the-carnage.
• Atriving a: ;he ih;p, with 'Nees revenge unsatiated,
and still Caging for blood, a general"massecre of the
remaining part of the crews, together with the whole of
thepassengers on board, immediately ensued, and
the exception of four 41(bVidlIAIS, neither men, woman,
nor child, of all that had left Rat Jackson, escaped 4,4‘
cruel vengeance of their merciless enemies. •It ,was iq
vain they sought to conce themselves; they were
soot discovered with a fatal certainty; and dragged not
ti su:ii the must eacruciatiog torments. &men' Om
sealers running up the
.rigging, With the hope that
when the fury of the Saveges should have suhsided,
their own lives might be spared, met web the same
fate as the rest of their unfortunate companions.—.
Coming down at the request of Tippahet p, who had,
on that dreadful morning, come into the harbour front
the Day of Islands, they put themselves under his pro.
:ethos-, aed though the Id Chief did all in his pow, r
to prevent their being oiassacred, droll were one:
vailiog, and they felt ht:fore his eyes, the 1 at victim, in
Olt eeene of blood and horror. But here lam wrong,
this Was not the last scene, for there was one more et
which humanity will shudder, as we It as the person who
records it. These saveges, not satisited with the vets.
geance they had ahead) taken, and true to their cha.
enter as cannibals, It asset: themselves on the dead
bodies of their victims, tit votiting the mangled flesh
till their inhiman appetite., were completely glutted.
The foitr who had escaped the cruel destiny of all the
rest consisted of a WOM two children, and (to go,
bin-boy ; the;e, cr:Tpt tf.e lota last, had tortil9a/1r
chided the search of the b itbarians, till their aunt of
blood was satiated, and then being dilcoverea, *Wei
spared, and treated with some kindneds. Theeabin•
boy haying during thevnyageingratiated biroselt into
favour with George by 5r114:41 acts el ftienalehip, bed
now the good fortune to
.receive that reward which of
all others was the most Ifaliiible totiiih, his life. Thif
Chief, impressed -with a grateful tecellectitm of his
kind offices, received lion in an 'affectiontito•manner I
while he ran to hies for protection, and crying out is
a piteous strain—" Gettig', you won't kill me?" he
WAS answered by; the other, who shewed that, with all
his cruelty, he was capable of gtatittide—t. No, my
boy, I won't kill you--71.11 are a
,rood boy," and
taken by him under his imnwdiate cite. -
Such was the end of the unfortunate Boyd, and such
the melanchcly fate
et ano t)l, people, not le„ithoi
70, ell. cal: "lt In t:,.: petite o: liar, .414 lust to their.
-uuntry, then It ientls, and their dealt:lt CoGiltatieug.
• George's Brother.
1: UAW of antaisi.r tribe mane to the Sauk

THE EV

PING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 11111.
ITINDIL-
Prise of Nooks this day as verdes o'clock
fudged s if) ea. sat—Corr. for Oct. 11141
- Coos. for Nov. itti Ss-44avy. Iwllabds ill ale prot
alai Lem Anus. WI f 1 es. die.—inch. Was. W to Sas. pr•
answered, several days ego, the {smiths et Ministate to
lesa&Bachecter IW., at ad. per day Interest. This roorolng the
Beak received a lase issue, and such la the essidesee et the
t, this security, that they Instantly bon a yreasiem of
Ifls. to 17.. Cossets opened to-day at Kt. and haintediately
fete to at which price there Weft won heyen at twelve
otioch. The diet& nil' to be paid eo Vooday sod Tweiday will
be in Sovereigns and Hal Sovereigns. No more Osborn se
Tait Guineas are t 5, he issued tor the proost.
.1.11.111

We Whets thsit the following comparative state•

intent el the net produce a the Revenue of Great
Britain, iN the Qoarteis ending on the 10th of Octo-
ber. 1876 and 1817 revectively, h dearly correct.
The official statement segairing to be brought dawn
to the latest hour last n•ght, kad not been closed in

time for circulation when this Paper was put to press,
-but from the progress made we have reasolito believe
that the following will be found neat the truth :
CONSOLIDATED FUND.
1414. 11117.
.61,494,1111.4,,194,'403
4,178,419 4,411,941
1,437,447 1,684,663
714,4441 78;6'53
465,0110 354,000
• 165,414 1114,931
41,491 76,1140

Penmen Customs
Dios Ezcise •
&Mar •
Assessed Tams •
Po.t.Ofca
lasid•Taz •

Total of C 0461141414 Fwd £6,452,090 £1,391,344
11”.•—•.,
1,057,111 1,366,454

Anna Dudes • •
-Surplus of dr. paid loco Csoollaits4
And . •
Tooputary Excise . •

'Mtn 432,152
Lon t54.44s
tog No Rouses 41 Wh136426 0110 10•44.
On lillooday we hope to rectify any *swag
'titbit she above may exhibit. In the mean caned
is satisfactory to lied that the produce of the Coosa
lidated Food for the Quarter ending yesterday, so
suede that of last year by at least it 130,030. 'Thb
improvement may be considered as pervading all the
branches except the Excise; sad the shert.comiog in
this branch ie easily captained from the circumstance
clf the Masters, &c. retarding their operations, wait.
lag for the barley of the new crop. Nothing aut be
more astural, in the face of a falling market, than
to delay purchasing as bag as passible f and in feat
May do wait till the maskethas passed Its istalamme
ardent they think et laying ift a apply.

la the Commas the humus bee bola saioslasrable.
Naar /140000 s sad is the &amps above 451(4000►
la the Post-Mks that it e falliag at. to a small
amens bet is the maul &Iles ea laareees da4
ism asoomoo.
as tie whole the produce is tatisfactity, ead Mw
sites' smog "Mena that ow (sedition hti bee
ow& improved slam the begieelng of hat eget*.
a coasoliattteh after the rural disuses end print. ,
tuft wide!' lately gals so emir ems for 'alma w
own/ teaseling mind.

. We-understand that, according tithe 'hint IMMO
If leilhaege (or whatever other cause it is that raises
the notednal •aloe of gild above that of silver or
paper &aviation a for the matter. we believe, is still
ie dispute) tbe new sovetelps admit of being sold at
a premium. Perhaps they may be coined too large,
or the silm too Iltder(ve believe the latter). Na.
stems dealers are said to be engaged to this nefari-
Olt I traffic ; and as gold can only be procured at the
Bask by notes dined prior 'gibe lst of Jimmy, 1817,
Beak notes of that antecideat date are bought up
with avidity, and instantly taken to the Bank for cash.,
This is a circumstance, which, if one, we shall regret
enteedingly, both as being the first which has ems.
ged of a character calculated to fetter is any degree
the sew circulation to happily in progress, and like.,
Wise as greeting the freak determination of the Bank
to pay in cub with a rode reception. We feel sunhats
in obtain faiths: information on chit subject.

Paris Papers of iteduestlay arrived this morning.
The case of Messrs. Corr' and Doestoven, the
seem of the Cower Bureplas. has been decided by
witolgeseat of the Court of Appeal, and not as re-
ported by some Journals here, by any gompeinarse
des Ministry. The Court has reduced their.
teem of Imprisonsiset to three months, and the am
imposed ea them to a thousand francs, besides dis.
Margin the interdiction of civil rights ponooneed
against them. The grosad of this moderation of their
indigoes is however stated to be merely the long deten-
tion to which the accused have already bees sdbjected,'
for the Court is *IOW to declare, that the Notes of
Refutation, which they added to the pretended igloo-
saript from St. Helena, and is whieb they exhibited
the author of the manuscript as the tyrant of France
end the scourge of the human race, were futile, or at
Idait insufficient to repel the attacks made against the
Ultimate Sovereign and his family, inasmuch as they
sum passed over is entire silence the injuries and ea.
lemaies directed against the person of the lEmo is
several parts of the manuscript. The crime, there_
Wets of IL M. COMT2 and DUSHOTZR MUDS to be, not
that they did not abuse BONAPARTZ sufficiently, but
that they did net point out to the people of France
116 w gratifying a contrast Leda Tilt Dun= pre.
its to sae exiled Tyrant.
dieocralaitesamis Damusta, sod Doiatueer, wbo

meto'nesitad co theist of July last. mere liberated
es the lit inst. in virtue of an Ordinal)* of the De-'
pertaseetal Court of the Rhone, which absolves them
from the criminal charge brought against them.
A Cabinet Coutter is stated in an article from
Madrid to have set oat from that capital on the 24th
sit. for Paris, carrying with him the adhesion of the
Spanish Government to the Article of the Treaty of
Vienna relative to the abolition of the Slave Trade.
It is added, that the abolition is to take effect from
the year 18'10; and that Englund has made a loan
to Spain on the occasion of a million of francs, or
at4oo,oiai sterling I I A good bargain too, it seems.
fii us, for we are assured that at another epoch we
actually offered for this boon to humanity, a loan—
or, as we suppose it may more literally be rendered,
a present of nearly twice that sum.
Another secret -of some importance accompanies
this intelligence from Madrid. It is at length ad'
matted to be veryltrell known, that since the month
of April last. alltbe ports of the coast of Chili and
Viceroyalty of Lima, have been declared by the
Royal Government in a state of rigorous blockade,
excepting only Sainte Marie, Le Callatvend Cohan.
The defection which the politicians at Madrid draw
front ibis is awe think tlir etioegh. As the Royal
Government would net likely blockade itself, they
are l.;,1, 8.0101, Wats it seems, to believe, that the
Insurresis ate actually in possession oldie interior—
* belief in which we have the happiness to assure
them, from most authentic information of many
months intiquity, that they are perfectly well fou: deo.
Whilst the Royalist Navy pretends thus to be block-
ading the ports olithe Pacific, it is mattrr of some
wonderment to learn from the sime source, that the
privateers of the Insurgents, abandoning their own
shores, and traver.itig the vast Atlantic, are, in real
feet, so blockading :he coasts of the mother country,
1, that scarce a ship can slip out without a eertainty
nearly of being captured. Within the space of eight
days there has been captured, it appears. between
Capes Patios end Crees.• is the Mediterranean, no
less than ton Spanish ships belonging to Valencia,
Barcelona, and other ports of that sea.
An as tmblagi. of stoops is taking place ingstra-
Wawa, and wen those which were preparing at Cc
din have. it is said, been detached thither. A great
many osaisetures :)ave been formed as to the cash
of these movements ; but no p:nona it is Aram', se-
ritresly believes in the proximity of any raptors with
the Portuguese. It we might except the detaching
of the Cadis division, ef which indeed there is no ,1
absolute severance, we should suppose the whole to
1' merely the remit of some Commissariat change of
distrilretion.

The arbitrary sethutossate of the King of Warmth,'
burp is sot, ii appesn, likely to pats without the
appoiltioa which it is so well calculated to sun.. As,
ardele hues itastadt gates) Chit strong reclametions
keie bees made stalest it from sakes pang of the
kindeaso.Fresch i pet etruu.44l. 110 c.

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A distinguished Patriot General has arrived in 1
London frets the Spanish Main, for the purpose of
making purchases of large ships, in order to be coo
mild into ships of war, tu compose a respectablt
navy. We are assured that there is so want of dol-
lars to carry into elect Ibis great object. The Co.
Deral glutted to sap, if the Patriot Armies an let
at the patent inotnent nlry thing they require, they
soon will be; and that a navy is now a prime object,
so to be disposed of at eta as to co-operate with and
give assistance to the military operations on land.--
The negocistions of the General on the abject aro
already far advanced to a favourable Wile

The Dube and Doehess of CIAISULAND lean
Tuabtidge Wells ea Monday. for Worthing.
The Duke and Duchess 'Newsome'. and family
left their residence i■ Berkeley-square this day, for
theist seat, Cleasbervark, Nottiiighsahhire.

The Marquis of Suao is expected Huston to Eng
land to-morrow week, from Paris.

The Marquis of Zama intends leaving his seat in
Lincolnshire next week, for tows.

The Dowager Marchioness of LANIADOWN left Wsr-
this_g ea Weisilay, for Brighten.
The ZIA and Countess of Br. GIRMANS are re.
turned t. their seat. Pert Eliot. Cornwall. ism disk
seat is Gleseestersbire.