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The Liverpool Mercury of Friday week contains
an extract from a letter which has been received by
a Gentleman of that town from his brother at Jud-
dah, a sea port on the Red Sea. This extract pur-
ports to give some information respecting the above
enterprising traveller. It is as follows:
" Dec. 15, 1818.

" On my landing at iuddah, a place wherelaiinot expect
to bear an English word, I was accosted by a man in the com-
plete costume of the country, with Are you an Englishman,
Sir?' My answer being, of course, in the affirmative, ap-
peared to give him pleasure beyond expression. "nooks and
praise to Goo!' he exclaimed, I once more hear an English
tongue, which I have not done for fourteen years before.' I
have been much amused by him since ; his aecount of the
Abyssinians, the inhabitants of a country that has absorbed
fourteen years of his existence, is inileed truly interesting.—
You must, no doubt, have heard or read of him; he is that Na-
thaniel Pearce spoken of by Mr. Salt, in his Account of his
Travels in Abyssinia. lie was left there by Lord Valencia, and
has been the greater part of the time in the service of one or
other of the Chiefs in various parts of the country. At the
time I met with him, be was endeavouring to make his way to
Tombuctoo, where he says Mungo Park is still in existence, de-
tained by the Chief. He says the whole country almost idolize
bins for his skill iu surgery, astronomy, &c. &c. They say he
is an angel, come from Heaven to administer comforts to them;
sod be explains to them the motions and uses of the heavenly
bodies. Ile is, Pearce says, very desirous to make his escape,
but finds it impossible.—. What!' say they, s do you suppose us
so foolish as to part with so invaluable a treasure? If you go
away, where are we to find another possessing so much know-
ledge, or who will do us so much good?'—Pearce appeared to
have been resolutely bent oar endeavouring to reach To.nbuctoo,
but bad for souse time been labouring under severe illness."
Happy should we be it Pearce's statement should
be found correct, and the illustrious Park still in ex--
istence. That Pearce gave the above relation to the
writer of the letter, we do not doubt; but we ques-,
tion the truth of that relation. There is a greater
weight of evidence to prove the melancholy fate of
Park than there is to prove his being still in existence.
No intelligence has been received from him since he
left Sansanciing, is the year 1805 ; and this fact itself
is a strong presumption that he is not now in ex-
istence, and a corroboration of the several accounts
which have been published respecting the manner of
his death, the most recent of which we lately noticed.
Pearce, we suppose, obtained his intelligence respect-
ing Pink in Abyssinia; but the distance of Tom-
huctoo from the eastern coast is so great, and the in-
ttrmediate regions so completely a terra incognita,
that this consideration alone is sufficient to over-
throw the whole story. But there is one fact which,
to us is decisive against the truth of Pearce's relation.
Many cf our Readers may have read the narrative
of Robert Adams, a sailor, «•ho was wrecked, in the,
year 1810, on tht western coast of Africa, detained
by the Aratis of the Great Desert, and carried by
them ro lombucto i. He remained there several
months, resided, the whole period of his stay, in the
palace of W'oollo, the King, and J.-et/trendy walked
about the town. Adams, from the uncommon de-
gree of curio'.ity which he excited, believed that the
people of Tomhuctoo had never seen a white man
befote. Now, supposing Park to have been then de-
tained in that city (ae.d he must have been there at
that time, if Pearce's story be true), engaged in ex-
plaining to the rude and ig-ndiric.it natives the sublime
science of Astronomy, is it at all probable, either
that Adams would not have seen or heard of so won-
derful a man, or that Park would not have found
some means of communication wiLli Adains ? The
writer of the letter states, that when he met him at
Juddah, Pearce was endeavouring to make his way
to Tomhnctoo. This, in our opinion, is as improbable
as the story about Park. For where is this Juddah ?
it is, no dcubt, the well known sea-port of Arabia
Felix, on the Red Sea. If it be so, and if Pearce'
were endeavouring to peßetrate to the far famed
Tonibuctoo, is it not a little singular that he should
endeavour to do so from Juddah, which is 0.1 the
Asiatic side of the Red Sea, which, before he could
commence his journey, he must cross to the African
side? --r

Yesterday the Annual General Mee:ing of the Na-
tional Society for the Education of the Poor, was held
at the Central School in Baldwin's Gardens—the
Archbishop of CANTERBURY in the Chair. The Meet-
ing was numerous, and many persons of distinction
attended, among whom were the Bishops of LosooN,
ELY, and PETERBOROUGH, Mr. WILBLRFORCE, Lord
KENYON, Sir R. PEEL, dtc.

Every Number of the Monthly Journal of New
Foya4es and Travels rises in interest and importance.
Theirrst Number contalaied the best and fullest ac-
count* that has been printed of the Voyage of Disco-
very to Baffin's Bay.—The second was filled with Mr.
Paton 's most amusing Voyage in the Indian Seas.—
And the third and recent Number contained the two
late Excursions of M. Doom to the Ports and Pub-
lic Establishments of the United Kingdom ; trans-
lated and enriched with Notes by a Captain in the
S'avi, and constituting the most interesting mass of
information that, in the same compass, was ever sub-
mitted to British Readers. '
Just published, by T. HARVEY, of Blackfriars-road,
a Pocket Manual, being Alin, Minutes Advice from
tie Medical Board, in a Lecture on the Lues Venerea,
as delivered at Woodstock-House, and Charlotte-
House, in March last, a Publication highly interest-
ing to young Practitioners, and of importance to the
.vital interests of Society.—For the accommodation
of Patients at the West end of the Town, a Medical
Board is established in Woodstock-street, Oxford-
street, under the patronage'of Dr. COOPER, of Char-
lotte House, Great Charlotte-street, Blackfriars-road.
The Board is compmcd of Gentlemen of the first
talent, of nearly forty years experience, all Members
of the Royal Colleges of London and Edinburgh,
who may be consulted daily by all ranks of inva-
lids wisvthe greatest confidence. Patients afflicted
with certain complaint, strictures, erratic pains,
- of the skin, ulcerated throat, glandular
in the neck, nodes on the shin bones, Btc.
tiseases which arise from improper treatment—
•9d are immediately relieved, and speedily
thout confinement.—Messrs COOPER. and Co.
lted at Woodstock House, from Eight in the
until Eight at Night ; and at Charlotte-
Great Charlotte-street, opposite the Rev.
Hill's Chapel, from Twelve till Eight.—
,S have advice Gratis every evening, from
Eight, at both Houses • and on Sunday
until Twelve o'Clock.2N. B. Ruptures of
standing, and of 24 inches in circumference,
cured, without surgical operation.

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