The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-10 00:00:00

HOLMAN THE BLIND TRAVELLER.

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Since the return of this enterpris;ng traveller from his last
African expedition, he has been constantly engaged in arrang-
ing and preparing for publication a history of his travels in
this almost unexplored part of the world.
A doubt will naturally arise in the mind of most persons as
to the possibility of his describing accurately what he must have
seen with others' eyes, and employed other hands to delineate.
To this objection it2may be answered that all-bounteous nature
seldom deprives us of any of our ordinary faculties without sup-
plying the deficiency by rendering our other perceptions more
acute—hence the deaf may be said to see words, and catch their
import from the eve or gestures of the speaker; and the blind
are most commonli endowed with senses of hearing and feeling
so exquisitely delicate as almost to compensate for the loss of
sight; compelled to rely 'on their memory, unaided by artificial
helps, they are also found to possess that power in a much
greater degree of perfection than those whose ordinary corpo-
real functions are unimpaired by disease or accident. Mr.
Holman is gifted with a memory of such wonderful tenacity,
as rarely to lose whatever he commits to its safe custody, to
which may -be added a judgment of extraordinary soundness,
that enables him to determine the degree of credit due to the
representations made to him of past or passing events. For
this description of Mr. Holman's mental powers we are in-
debted to a literary friend, who has perused a portion of the
forthcoming work in manuscript, and who speaks of it in terms
of high commendation; we are therefore prepared to expect, in
" Voyages Round the World of the Blind Traveller," a work
that does not depend for success upon the extrinsic interest
which its title page may be calculated to create.
As some of our readers may be ignorant of the fact, we take
this opportunity of informing them that "the blind traveller"
is a lieutenant in the royal navy, and one of the naval knights
of Windsor, anion_g whom he might have remained at "Traver's
(the founder's) College," in the enjoyment of ease, and an
honourable independence, but for the indomitable spirit of
enterprise which is so prominent a feature in his character. Be-
tween this gentleman and Captain Ross there are some points of
resemblance—both do honour to our navy list—both have over-
come difficulties hitherto considered insurmountable, and both
appear to have embarked in their several undertakings from
that. pure love of fame that animates none but the iu „t • Iv noble
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Their works, we understand, will appear about the same time.

A proclamation for the further prorogation of Parliament
wilt appeir in Tuesday night's Gazette, and on the following
Thursday will he prorogued, with the usual ceremony,
in the I-louse of Lords, and a day appointed for its meeting for
the do patch of business.
IMPORTANT TO YOUNG LAntEs.—Lord Prudhoe is making
great improvements at his beautiful seat in Yorkshire, called
Stanwiek Park, near Dariington. humour sa.s that his lord-
ship., by the advice. of his brother, the Duke of Northumber-
land, is going to take to himself et wife.—Morning Herald: