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London, England, 1827-09-10 00:00:00

" No writer has described ea well as the author of Hamel, the
masons and the climate of die country et the Antilles."—Loadea
Ma fatties.
This lee work of antidotal, power. The ossioepticas are
triremes ; the incidents are making; the seines sew."...ficotwe an.
• The deem *titans of seamy we akee sad atrikiag ; tie poa
treks of character are Inn and irignesias ; the eketches of assorts
lively end instructive. Amy of the 'itemises are ma maned.
and precise,. a deep Maria is the Reader, While the erect of the
whole is helgiussed by the esoeky of the subject. The author Is
ca estirely oew ground, wend, et us add, resod which abounds in
obis= of peat and powerful interest."—Atlas.
le TWo Tale. Haw 145. bqards,
lU.RIAO.LI ; et.TIK Two Vela Comm.
" Independently of being a cakes specimen of Chinese novel-
writing, this work has more than ordinary intrinsic merit. It is
a highly interestieg story, well told ; it is full of pure senttment—
vf genuine' if nut powerful passion—of miming adventures—of
lively. laughable, sad varied dialogues."—Lbodoes Weekly Review.
" TVs is a psychological as well as a literary curiosity. The re-
flecting Rader will have reward enough levant be learns respect.
tng the stamen. Roseanne, prejudices, sad 'habits of thought, of a
populous sad remarkable sudess."—Seeteaue.
It is with great *ewe that we ode the literataire of oar
tenantry enriched by an Roglish MIIIO4 of this wed. We do not
know the class of -Roglish raiders to swipes so complete an ac-
. quaintance with Chinese manners, at is Worded is this work, will
sot be highly secepteble."—Mondily.
.Review.
" This is a very curious and a very haterestios medusas of
• Moen Literature. We are persuaded that more real knowledge,
both of the manners and literature of the Chinese, may be acquired
Eros such sources than from the reports of travellers, which are
necessarily confined and soperficiaL"—Literary Claroolde.
" We recommend the present volumes I. our Reader.; apd If
wry of them have an idle hat, weeroold beastly mamsel them
to stedy Mina rather In the of Two 'Fair Cantos,' than la
the Lettree Mimeses or the tie* Of Funs Ham and Ilea Chi
-Aimee Y—Scets Tales. •

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FROM TALI OP 4 PILGRIM.

It is unnecessary to give his diary while in lantlflon
A stranger with a light purse is nobody in that vortex
of dissipation and latravagance. Place a man on a'
.desolate rock, and he will not be more solitary, or mote
woe-uricken, than tlae miserable btfmg-vibo sertkvaa'and
dies in the tremendous tumult of that oirergtoern city:
The Illimitable space covered by buildinge..4lste
riathine streets--the snakitudes toksing and' rtelink in'
tray direction--the interminable forest of marts on
the river—the rauling of inothseriblor chariots—the
glinding of a thousand waggods—and. above all, the
deep solemn hum of the edition, tell the stranger that
he is but an atom. He tnay stumble into the river, or
be cruised to death-under somfl punderoni wheel, and"
his remains will be gathered and Itoffed'into hate,
without extorting a sigh hem one human berionti- Lit
him die attrong the rudest tribes' of the &tart, and'
he will be beniiiled 1 but 'id Leaden be mdit caltbritel
on no sympathy sase that whith'grild may buy,
Blane'clid not repine at the insignificance to which bt'
was reduced by being flung into the heart of theories',
Babel. Nobody; keen him; looked irt Min; citrecrfoe
him, and he felt thit he had, atiength;-'stfaiteriloffibe
chain which had so Iritiglettered b.is
th"l37, but what be thought an expensive! His
amusements were confined to solitary perm is
the coarse of which he enjoyed a bltd% *ye *kir stew
metropolis, from the top of St. Pads, add'lnotailibltiol
a few hours among the illustrious dead in Westairmoker
Abbey. Yet he was comparatively happy. Ili able
has no hereditary distinctions to pride himself on, will
hardly regret their absence, while he, lingers under do
toots of either of these mighty metropolitan temples,4.l
'here the marble tells him that the'. proudest honour,
be won by the lowest born in the land—that' thie
the hind may, by his sword or his pen, scoop fa
!instil a grave betide the descendants of Princes, long
the scions of Rojalty are forgotten. Who sleeps
the lofty-dome of St. Paurva tomb scarcly
ry than. the 'greatest nf• the Pyramids t—not the
of a hundred kings, hut 'the son Of a commoner—
hero Nelson l Wbete host of ennobling emotions
,ail the heart, when one 'stands, for the first titni, in
e centre of Wenn:sit gikintic stincturkthat 'the British
nion has teared to the honour of the God it worship's;
long silts stretchin* to the four cardinal points—the
114 raising thee hundred feet above his head—the
:s of a hero beneath hii feet—the monuments of many
hors, scarcely less illustrious, around—and the ban-
torn from the f-e in a thousand battles, flapping
th. a tombs 1

The following extract of a letter respecting Amherst
ITown appears in the Calcutta Government Gazette of
the Ist of March. It gives a highly favourable view of
the advantages which the new settlement offers to a
commercial intercourse with the countries in its vicinity t
" The harbour of Amherst has been so fully de-
scribed in your columns, and so ably laid down in the
chart of Captain Spier', that it calls for no further re-
mark. I have the satisfaction, however, to state, that
during my say there no less than .nine ships rode safely
sr anchor, within two hundred yards of the shore, nor
was any serious accident experienced by any of them,
either in their entrance or departure. The greatest
draught of water amongst them was 1711 feet, and the
smallest 15 feet. • One serious Objection was eialy urged
against the settlement, that the supply of water was not
only inadequate, but of bad quality. The experience
of nearly a whole year has fully proved that there is no
foundation for inch an apprehension; water is forsad
every where within six or seven feet of the surface by
any one who takes the trouble to dig a well. I believe
there are not less than a dozen now open. The water
is just as fine as it is abundant, and is approved of both
by natives and strangers. Every ship that has visited
the place has been witered from them, and they have
afforded a daily supply to the large flotilla of gun-boatils
Such a spontaneous supply of good water is scarcely pro.
curable at any other port of India that I know of.
" An object of the first importance to the prosperity
of the settlement is its trade in timber. The existeney
of extensive forests of teak on tfie'taing, Attran, as*
Sateen rivers, equal or superior in size to the corn
run of teak usually exported from Rangoon, has beak
satisfactorily ascertained. TPere is reason also to
lieve, that it is superior in quality, since the teak br
from the forests of Shooegin and Toungoo, and, iud
those generally which are situated on the eastern ei-
tremity of the Burman dominions, and whit!), conse-
quently, approximate nearest to those of our newly
quired territory, is considered far superior to that
from the forests of the Irawuddee, and bears a
tionably larger price in the Rangoon market.
" It is reasonable to expect that the important discovery
of these forests will, at no distant period, relieve us f
our dependence upon the caprice of the Burma= for a
Oupply of this commodity, and that it will furnish our
'Government, at a cheap rate, with the description; of
ds ber required for ordnance and other purposes, which
it was seldom, and with great difficulty, able to select
from the cargoes brought from Rangoon.
" The article next in importance to the trade in tim-
ber is that of • - The island of Bill', and the whole
an, is so remarkably fertile in
the Burman Government, a

article of food was usually
of that place itself. During
food which prevailed in Ran-
goon last year, the services of our new settlement were
of the most important nature. Its large and seasonable
exportations of rice alleviated the wants of thousands,
before intelligence of the scarcity could be conveyed to
Bengal, and a sufficient supply be received from thence.
The island of Bilu, the most productive portion of the
province' affords :very facility for transportation by
bled and water, and its proximity to Amherst would
'Maki the shipment of its crops both cheap and easy.
lAs the quantity of land in Martaban, suitable to the
growth of rice, and remaining yet uncultivated, is im-
mense, the price for many years to come will be com-
pXratively moderate, and this article will au doubt
prove a profitable export to the Malay coast, Pinang,
ithe Isle of Frahke, and the coast of Coromandel. __ _

• " After timber and rice, the articles of export which
will, probably, be first available to the commerce of
Amherst, ere indigo and cotton. The former is rudely
manufaetMed in large jars, and precipitated, or rather
mixed with such enormous quantities of lime as to ren-
derit useleis in its present form to European commerce;
but as the plant luxuriantly flourishes on the banks of
all the rivers, when British capital and industry are
employed in its cultivation, there is every reason to hope'
it will be prosecuted with success. The large and nu-
°serous islands, as well as the banks of the Saluen, are
represented, by those well acquainted with this branch of
agriculture, to be peculiarly well adapted to its cultiva-
tioo.-i—Cardamums, in small quantities, sesamum, oil,
ivory, and beei-wax, have long been exports from Mar.
taben. As a depot, from which the Burmese, Lao, and
probably the Siamese countries, may with facility be
sdpplied with British and Indian manufactures, Am-
herst is a settlement of the first importance. The short
run by water, between Amherst and Rangoon, will
secure the supply of that market to the former, by
Meatis'of the Burmese trading boats and small coasting
daft; while the mitirisiveand populous tract of Toun-
gm will be supplied with Much greater facility than
WHO Rangoon. The capital of Ava, and the northern
and eastern provinces of the Empire, were furnished,
before the war, with British manufactured cotton goods
and woollens chiefly from Calcutta, by a long and
difficult land carriage through Arracaa. It is ascer-
tained that a much shorter and more practicable road
is open through Toungno, and there is little or no
doubt existing that trade will be beneficially diverted
from its former channel, and that the Ava market will,
infutere, be supplind by native traders, who will cross
from Martaban to Amherst to lay in their investments.
An Increased consumption will be the consequence.
" It may safely be said, that every branch of trade
in which European merchants were engaged in the 1
Burman dominions, may
,be pursued with equal, and,
in most cases; ream:prospect of success at Amherst, I
at= d I consider it ode •lif the most linportant'advantages
gained by the late Mar, that, *hile by the retention of
that settlement, our tomnstrtial intercourse with the
Barmans, and other neighbouring nations; bears every
prospect of considesatsht emensipo, .it is alio placed in
such a suite of senility as could not
ibe accomplished.
lry'an othei arida.' .oUfaiiiihierie tsstiterebr relieved
front the numerate pert,' esstitterri end annoyances, and
onr merchants from the mere serious oppression and
degradation to which they were severally exposed by
the haughtiness of the Burman Government, and the•
t'upility of its officers.

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