Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-04-16
VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD.

ed on SunQayftO MaIlilld, SdiiSa ilohi
this port in June 1922, on voyage
round the world. The editors of the
Gazette are indebted to Capt. Leslie
for the following particulars OF his
voyage:
She first visited several of the prin-
cipal ports on the east side Of South
America, then doubled Cape Horn
and coasted along the western shores
of the American continent, stopping at
number Of ports and places, after
which she proceeded up the Gulf OF Ca
Gfornia, as far as civilization or trade
extended. She afterwards crossed the
Pacific Ocean several times between
America and Asia, (each time by a
different route) and returned home by
the Cape of Good Hope, thus circum-
navigating the earth. Captain Leslie
has, during the cruise, determined the
situation of several Islands not define
ated in any of our charts; corrected the
position of some, and ascertained the
non-eXistcnce of others.
Whilst the Jupiter was lying at Ma
nilla in October last, that city was
dreadfally convulsed by earthquakes
for number of days. Many store
houses, together with large church,
and the great stone bridge were destroy
ed, and nearly all the store houses were
more or less injured: the motion was
from N. n. E. to S. S. w. On feeling
the first shocks, which were very light,
every person fed from the store hous-
es and slept i'll tents, bamboo houses,
and boats on the river, so that few lives
were lost. But on the night Of the 3oth
October most violent T'ifoon was eX-
per;enced, which destroyed the bam-
boo houses and tents; six square rig
ged vessels, and a number of coasters
were driven ashore high and dry, with
passage boat with about twenty pas
sengers lost at the mouth of the river.
Almost every vessel in the harbor was
driven from her anchorage. The Jupi-
ter, however, did not drag any, owing,
as Capt. Leslie thinks, TO her being
provided with the excellent chain ca
bles from the mandatory of Messrs.
Tucker & Carter, Of this city, ofAmc
rican iron. A French brig drifted foul
of theJupiter and lay athawrt her hawse
during the height of the gale, which
gave her chains very severe proof.
At the commencement of the gale
the barometer fell more than an inch,
one half of which in the short space of
ten minutes, a circumstance, it is
thought, unprecedented in tropical eli
mates.
Capt. Leslie left at Manila, French
frigate and corvette on voyage Of
science and discovery, under command
Of Com. Bougainville, son Of the cele-
brated circumnavigator of that name.
AS usual in French National Dissolve
ry ships, they were well provided with
officers, profcients in the various
branches of science. Whilst at Manil-
la some of the officers were engaged in
surveying the adjacent coasts, and o.
theirs were exploring the mountains OF
the Philippines for rare animals, mine
rails and plants, and drawing or paint
ing the most interesting subjects OF
nature and art. The commander him
self was employed in making astrono-
mical and philosophical observations.
The time Of their departure from Ma
nilla was retarded in consequence Of
the corvette losing her mainmast in the
gale of Oct. 80. They were first bound
to Cochin China, where the French
have lately formed commercial esta-
blishment; thence they intended to
touch at Canton, and afterwards ira
VERGE the Pacific.
The Colombian ship Of war Gen. St.
Andero formerly the Kensington Of
Philadelphia arrived at Manila in No
vember last, and was given up TO the
Spaniards by her crew who had mutt
MED After the mutiny, John Green Of
Salem, assumed the command, but the
crew finding that he was neither sea-
man or navigator, and having nothing
to recommend him except his being
chief mutineer, put him in irons, and
gave TIC COlllllldIO " IISdCIlSh oSi b
man, formerly an apprentice TO captain
Charles Wooster in New-York,) who
had been a midshipman on board be-
fore the mutiny, in which however he
did not join. The ship was condemn
ed as unseaworthy, and her crew like
those of the Belgrano, which went
there the year before under similar cir
cumstances, got nothing for their dis
affection.
1t may not be amiss to add that the
Jupiter, although she has been absent
nearly three years, has not lost spar
or sail, and has gone over all the ground
traversed by Lord Arson, and which
forms but small part Of her route
Capt. Leslie has scarcely had man
sick during the voyage, but lost one
man, Henry Stewart, of Aberdeen, who
was devoured by wild beasts, in the