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London, England, 1829-11-23 00:00:00

•' Arm'd with thunder, clad with wins e,

and the last, in a prose passage more beautiful than poetry, in
which he describes a launch, with the deep, silent expectation of
the assembled multitude, and their Anal burst of enthusiasm; and
when be speaks of the thoughts that arise in the bosom, on seeing
her swing round in the calm water,—all the days of battle, all
that she had to do and to suffer for her country,—what English
heart does not beat more proudly and more quickly ! These are
ships of war,—and whatever may be the evils of war, it at least
redeems every thing, connected with it from vulgarity ; but all other
vessels, from the stately Indian to the coasting trader, are but
Roads,' shops. In an Imaginative point of view, I grant it noble.
When we think of its going forth, like the lone bird through the
air, itself a speck upon the wide and wekering sea, and of its
visiting the furthermost parts of the earth, there is mething of
grandeur in the thought. When we hear of the " spectre bark,"
whose dark and distant form is seen by the ;lightning's sheeted
glare, and seen but for an Instant, as it flies before the gale with
every sail en, while the foam of the wave is of a dazzling bright-
ness in the blase ; we own that there is no story of superstition
equal to it. But when we look upon it with respect to a passage,—
and I fear that I never shall be able to regard it in any other
light—as a place in which we are " cabined, cribbed, confined"
for months, in which space is measured by the inch, and fresh
water by the drop ; when wothink that tie Captain has calculated
on us foe a profit, ranking us with the test of cargo—coosisting of
sundries, or hides, or tallow, or Cape wine—the vessel no longer
" Fans the waters like a thing of life,, but, atript of every ideal
charm, remains for ever a thing of coarse reality.
No, it is all hateful ; and a voyage is one of the shadows in life's
picture that gives relief to its lights. It has been laid down by
some, that the occupations of the blessed In tbk neat world will be
but a shadow of what made their bandana in this ; I trust the
convene of their proposition does not bold good, or I shall de-
cidedly be sent to sea for my peccadillos, and put on board some
convict ghost-ship lying in the Wing, to be taught the lesson et IMP
may, that oohing can teach so well; for there we are made to
feel what dependtpt creatures we are, that a calm can depress, a
breeze excite, and a dinner render amiable. Think of undergoing
eternal rancid butter, and biscuit, tainted water, and miniess tea
and coffee • and for ever to beano sounds but the trading of the
sailiand thei straining of the ropes ; and to see near us the discon-
solate hens thnistthgtheir scraggy necks out of the coops, and the
consurapdve-looking pigs and sheep in the long-boat, while all
snood is sea and sky interminable, the distant line of the horizon
being at all times broken by blue misty clouds, mocking the
straining eye with the hope of a mountain coast ; and to hear from
the shadowy spectre of a Captain, in answer to the question—
" Whets shall we reach shore?" the dead eternal," Never."
I have said, that this Is a letter of recollections and corning from
the region of the wild superstition of the Flying Dutchman, and
knowing my taste for such tales, you would be surprised that I
should have beard no legend connected with it. The following I
bad from an intelligent young naval racer to whom it occurred.
The (acts were given without any attempt at effect ; and, as far as
my memory allows, I will repeat them as I beard them ; though
I fear that it can scarcely be considered as an appearance of the vi-
sionary vessel whose cruising ground is round the Cape, as title, I
am told by sailors, can be explained without having recourse to the
supernatural. Their solution I WM not give, thinking of the story
as Sir Lucius °Trigger of the quarrel, " that it is very pretty as it
stands, and explanation will but spoil It."
" I bad the command of the a small brig, and was
cruising off Madagascar, on the look-out for slave ships ;—it was
near two o'clock in the day, when I discovered a sail between us
and the coast. We saw it drawly, myself and the two midship-
men, and determined to keep her in sight, and to watch, but with-
• altering - course, or appearing to notice her; she still con.
•e shore, and then, as if suddenly perceiving
t more sail. I now felt certain that it
t upon her: We bad to tack, in order
_ ran far out; still, however, we were
making a small headland, I said, ' 1)u you
outs' talker, whose glass was directed towards
disappeared behind that point, and it was so
-he omit have struck her masts and lowered
I ant certain *ow she is a slaver,' I said,
escape to.' We reached the headland, which
boundaries of a small bay, in which I kit certain
out the evening was coming on, the coast was
' brought my brig to anchor at the mouth, so
unseen, while I waited kit the rising of
came on after sunset, and not a sound
lonely coast. Before the moor was up, I

had sot my beat acid feat men. sad talons my pbads,imaped lets
►er, leaving these directions with the eldeeaddablpatan, that should
I Ire one pistol, he should send a boat is the direction of the re-
port ; but should it be repeated. be *odd send both beets and
every man that could be spared. I went and sustained every
creek. every inlet of the bay, every rock beneath the shadow of
which a boat might have labs concealed. The moon had then*
and gleamed with its cold pale light on Alf reeky bay ; and when,
after a silent search of nearly three hoar•, I rowed for the brig,
and, on approaching, saw her small deck covered with men, a
strange feeling came over me. ' Something has happened !' I said,
' have you seen her?' was the question of the eider midshipman.
' No.'—' What, have you seen nothing ?'—' Nothing!' I replied.
He thee told me, that about a quarter of an hour after I had gone.
they beard the brig hailed ; that they listened, and again distinctly
beard it; that In about two boors after they heard screams,—one
might have been deceived, but they all beard them; that a belief
came over him that I bad guar on board the slaver, and was de-
tained ; and that just before my return. the boat had been ordered
out to search for me.

' All this sounds strangely!' I °buried to the narrator; but
how do you explain it I cannot explain it: I ordered careful
watch to be kept during the night, and at daybreak again examined
every point of the bay. There was no ship, and no sign of wreck.
A vague apprehension and superstitious feeling was creeping over
the men, who gladly left that part of the coast, which I named Bu-
chanted Bay. I have bewildered myself with thinking of It ; but
such are the facts.

In the country I bad left there was much of a wild interest that
I had not exhausted, and that I cannot hope to meet with again.
I will describe it with the scenes that produced it, and throw my
mind back upon the past, for of the presets' I have no pleasurable
impressions : the voyage is a blank in existence; let me, then, ill it
with recollections.

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There was to me no common excitement in the forest rides, and
In exploring the dark streams that wander through them. and are
lost in their remote and shadowy recesses. I have come unexpec-
tedly upon spots where. through openings in the overhanging luxu-
riant vegetation, the light fell upon the dear glittering water,
causing it well to merit the tide of the 41 diamond of the desert."
I have stood on its banks of cool, soft hillocks of mods and looked
down its course over-arched by the trunks and brai:ebes of tall
trees of redundant growth and varied folisge, While close to its
brink the grey willow dipped its pendent boegks lotto the stream,
which rippled through a fringe of &codas, lilies:reeds, large-leafed
water plants, and all that mass of mingled leaf and blossom which
is nourished by the river, and pays back the debt by beautifying
that which produced it. In such places have I met with the white
skull and the twisted horns of the hoodoo, lying half hid in the fern
and moss, and showing that the gaunt wolf or lurking tiger had
been there, and that the swift and beautiful antelope bad been his
prey. There were the hair-breadth escapes and strange adventures
of the lons elephant-hunter, listened to is the stillness of an African
might, as we sat round his tire, which threw its wild, uncertain,
dusky glow en the ball-defined, gaunt forms of the slumbering
dogs, and on the dark shadowy trees and bushes around.
The sun had not yet risen, and the air was still misty and chill
among the mountalos,whiehisy stretched before me and amend me,
and must be crossed before its setting. Amidst the bleak trespass
dons solitude, it seemed that myself and guide were the only living
moving things, and in the bushed stillness the spirit sunk beneath
the sense of utter loneliness and of littleness, where aU around was
vast. But the sun rises to dispel doubts and fears; to gladden
every thing, animate and inanimate • sad touches the mountain
peaks successively with fiery light, while the lower ranges and deep
valleys are yet shadowy and undeined. Each minute now pro-
duces change, and each change how beautiful! On one side all is
shrouded in cloud, which the eye in vain attempts to penetrate;
then partial openings appear in the sweeping certain, and through
them gleams of rocks, cliffs, and forests are seen, of rainbow hoes,
sunny, and soft, and scarcely mote substantial than the thin va-
pour that has yielded for a moment, and again dosed its fleecy veil
around them. As the son mounts higher, the mists yield to his
power ; in some places they still cling for a time to the craggy
summits, as if reluctant to quU their resting-place ; and in others
assuming strange fantastic forms, shoot up into the calm blue sky,
and having reached it melt into nothing. And now that the last
vapour is gone, and we have scaled the heights, and halt to rest oar
horses, and to look down upon a boundless savage region of grey,
lofty summits, bare ridges, deep chasms, sad lonely glens, how
breathless and overpowering are the sensations prodUced ! I re-
member saying, when a boy, that life could have no after-feeling
(Ind to that excited by being, for the first time, amidst the moun-
tains, their clouds, and their shadows ; and now, with the know.
ledge of experience, I repeat that it has not.
We toll down the difficult descents, in the languid mid-day heat,
through naked, rifted rocks, scorched, blackened Proteas, and Iris
dieted shrubs, and the weary riders command a wild and sterile
extent of cliff, of mountain, and rartine ; while, tar below, the
river's sinuous course is traced, by the skirting of trees that shelter
and conceal it. In ascending, they pass wooden steps and fast-
nesses, and stand on the brink of dark, gloomy abysses ; spots wild
and lonesome as ever mountain eagle or savage vulture soared
above. It is evening, and the stars are beginning to shine out, and
the dusky mountains to look larger In the gloom, and the jackal's
shrill melancholy cry is heard; at first, one solitary startling shriek,
which is quickly answered from the dim hills by the hey, pro-
tracted, dreary scream of many, rendering that which was loosely
before doubly lonely ; for there are sounds with which the spirit
owns no companionship.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 21.

The Loan CIANCILLOII,aThe fitting of the Court, delivered
judgment In this muck-litigated question.. This was an info,.
motion filed by the Attorney-General, and it related to certain
property situated is the parish of Hampstead. It appeared, by
the information and answer, and the facts disclosed In the a-
dmits (and about which he believed there was no dispute.) that
in the year 1696 the then Lord of the Manor of Hampstead
granted six acres of the Heath to (*flats persons (14 in number,)
upon payment of a nominal fine, and subject to the usual services
and customs. It was found linpossibie to ascertain the precise
amount of the fine, as the ancient instrument conveying the
property was so mutilated and obliterated. On the 25th of Sept.
1698, a deed was executed declaring the trusts of the grant to be
" for the benefit of the poor of the parish of Hampstead." Inl7lo as
information was filed by the then Attorney-General, with Menace
to this property, and certain suits were instituted in Chancery with
respect to questions arising out of and connected with this property.
In 1729 a decree was pronounced by the Court upon the in-
formation, and by that decree it was declared 'that the trusts
of the Charity should be establbbed. His Lordship bore read
at length the precise terms of the decree. by which It was di-
rected that a reasonable fine should be paid, according to the
custom of the Manor, and the intention of the friends of the
Charity. It appeared that in the following year the trustees
were appointed with the approbation of the Master—the sur-
render was made to them—they were admitted, and paid • fine,
that fine being settled as to its amount by agreement between
the Lord and the parties admitted. That decree bad been acted
upon down to the present time. These bad been several new
appointments of trustees, several surrenders and admittances,
and the fines had been regularly paid. The object of the pre.
sent information, Slid la 1826, was to reform this decree. In
that year the trustees were reduced. front fourteen to- two; and
Sir Thomas Wilson, who at that time and; still was Lord of
the Manor, *sleeted fourteen pllsol4.ls rentersof the alertrf•--
The names of these persons had been ininnitted to the Master;
be liariapproved of them, the surrender was made accordingly,
and they had atom been admitted. After the trustees bad been ad.
mined, Sir T. Wilson dallied a fine very large in amount, exceed-
ing 45,600, and 'smiling in a tenfold proportion any fine ever
paid on any former occasion. The object of the present decree
was, therefore, to reform the decree of 1729—t0 have it declared
that no fine was payable, or that, if any fine were payable, it ought
to be a nominal fine only ; or that the amount. of the fine, at any
rate, should not exceed one year's value of the estate. It was fur-
ther prayed that Sir T. Wilson should be restrained froai proceed-
ing at law to recover the fine ; and also from proceeding at law for
a forfeiture for the non-payment of the fine. There bad been. his
Lordship observed, a great deal of argument at the Bar as to the
construction to be put upon these several instruments, and he bad
attentively considered them. After a full deliberation upon all the
facts and arguments. he was disposed to think that there was no
ground for supposing this to be a nominal flue. The Lord of the
Manor, it was true, bad granted the property for the benefit of
the poor of the parish of Hampstead, but there was nothing to
chew that be ever intended to part with the fine which be had re-
served upon it. The opinion he now entertained was in accordance
with the decree of 1729. The Court then entertained so doubt
wb upon tin subject, and the direction was that the parties
should be admitted upon paying " a reasonable fine, according to
the custom of the manor." The question, therefore, for the Court
now to decide, was, whether Sir T. Wilson ought or ought not to
he restrained from
.proceedng at law foe the recovery of this fine ?
It was said that Sir T. Wilson bad come iis under the decree of
729, and that the Court would not allow ant other tribunal to con-
s rue its own decree. It did not appear to him that there was any
ambiguity upon the face of the decree ; it was perfectly plain and
straight-forward, and there was therefore nothing left for another
tribunal to construe. It appeared to him, upon the whole case,
that the proper Murse to pursue (and the best tribunal for the de.
• chino of this question was a Court of Law) would be to send the

matter to the Coon below, fee the man Of earintskilegerhat
was a" reamosbie doe, according to tie cones dtha Myer
Although this was the proper course In his *Aft bethought it
would net be namable that Mr T.Wilsoo, beam Alined a ver-
dict and *meat, abroad be at liberty to tale on emeotisa, with.
out applying in the first human to this Coon ; sad That it would
be highly improper also to allow his. to proceed at law as for a fee-
feitun. All that be now declared therefore was. that 81r T. Wit.

son might be at Überty to proceed at law for the purpose of mar-
taking the amount of the One. but that he was not to take out
execution. or proceed u a forfeiture. For these reasons tif woold
dissolve the injunction as to the proceeding at kw for ascertaining
the amount of the One. and contuse the Injunctionlas far as related
to the proceeding for a forfeiture a,psi the execution.

WILUISIXT e. WILLISLIT.
This cause, which was at the bead of the list of motions was
then called on.
Mr. How, who appeared for the phinelK Mr. Wellesley,
stated that he was happy to inform the Court that this Medea its-
volved no personal feeling whatever. It was one which won apes
a dry point of law, how far a tenant. for life, withal iespork.
mint of waste. was entitled to fell timber.
The Loan CUMICILLon hoped these
that
fans* differ-
awes were now at an end He understood all dificoldes was
now removed, and the Court would bear no more dais.
Mr. How expressed his satisfaction at the result.
The Loan Commune observed that Mr. Wellesley (at least
so be bad been informed) had accepted the guardian nominated
by the Master for the children, and every thing was now amica-
bly adjusted.
Mr. How then proceeded to open the cue before the Court.
It was an applicatioo for an order from the Court to dissolve the
injunction which bad been granted to restrain Mr. Wetiesky from
Cutting down thesremaining poll of the timber which DOW stood
oa the Wanstead estate. Learned Gentleman contended that
his client had a right, under the settlement by which he obtained
a life interest in that property, to fell the timber that had been
planted as ornamental to the mansion, which bad been (Mrs. Wei-
ledey having agreed before her death to the proceeding) pulled
down. The mansion being so down, it was no longer
that trees formai news and dumps, as ornamental=
house, should stand, tad that. as the park was turned to agricultu-
ral purposes, the dasher was is the way.
VIC&CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 11.
•
DM P. LW&
This was a canoe in which the Rev. Mr. Cu, the Rector of
Litton Cheney, in the county of Dorset, sought to set aside an
alleged modu upon the small tithes of his parish.
It was contended by Mr. Pure and Ms. fbrosonotr. on the
part of the parishioners, that one shilling for the tithe of the
milk of each cow, and ooe upon sods barrel of cider,
with certain (used sums for hay, Oa. had been paid from a time
of which the memory of man runnetb not to the contrary. A
number of depositions, from some of the oldest inhabitants of
the parish, were read in support of this assertion ; but it was ar-
gued by the Solicitor-General. Mr. Spence, and Mr. Knight, on
the part of the Rector, that this evidence, as It related to the pay-
ments of only one or two individuals, did not bear out the fact of
the ideas; that it was absurd to suppose for a moment that a
media of one shilling for the milk of a cow could have been agreed
upon in the reign of Edward the Third, when land was bad at six-
penes an sae, and the sum of a shilling was almost an income;
and see farther, that even if the modes could be proved, it was,
from bolos what is called too rani, bad its point of law.
Thu Vas•Cotincnioa, at the conclusion of the arguments on
these suestions said, he bad long been of opinion that it was ex-
tram* dillieult, from the different value of produce In different
places. wad Iran the circumstances under which they were made,
to pregame* with any certainty whether a nudes was or was not
too rant ;and as he was clearly of opinion that the defendant bad in
the present came made out a reasonable ground fur believing that
some Mod of modes did exist he thought, if the Rector would
undertake to go to trial, that the best method of settling the ques-
tion would be by an issue at law. The plaintiff's Council expressed
their willlmpess to go to trial, and an issue was directed accord-
ingly with respect to the milk and cider. a decree being taken for
tkeplaindif with respect to the hay, and the other points on which
the evideoce

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, N0v.21.

MIS 11.

The Arroanar-Gessnas in the absence of Lord Tama=
and Mr. Justice BAT LIT. moved, as a short motion, for a rule to
show cause why a esongiesitua. directed to the proper authorities of
Bombay, should nut issue. commanding them to examine, and re-
ams the examinations, of certain witnesses at Bombay, which the
defendant thought necessary to the due trial of the cause. The de-
fendant was or had been Governor of Bombay, and the action was
brought against him for damages fur basing turned the plaintiff out
of the country ; and this application was authorised by statute.—
Bade granted.

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was a slaver, and bore down
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• and she dull not escape to
formed one of the boundaries
the vessel must be; but the
wild anirrocly, and I breve
that nothing could get oat m
! the moon. A dead calm Cl
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