Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-06-15
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Vrom The Boston DAILY Advertiser.

from the Boston Daily Advertiser.
Tie fate Of La PerOuse discouercd.-It is
quite remarkable, that, after all the Ruthless search
thh has been made for the last forty years. to as
certain tie fate which Interrupted the srlendid
voyage Of this unfortunate ayeler, facts should
have to light At this late day, which bid fair
not only to disclose the nature of the disaster
which beeI him, bu; PR baby to restore 10 their
iriehd5 OF the survivors Of the expedtion.-
II Is not surprising that the fate of this enteprisin
traveller and lis companions should have excited
The most lively interest in II lance. lie was HIM
self Of noble family, had been many years IN the
naval service, aud had distinguished himself in the
American war lie sailed from BIes on the LIST OF
August, 1888, on voyage OF discovery in the Pa
cifc Ocean, in The fsigaie BOi,SS0ie, accompanied
10y tn. risaie .lSiT0iGje, commanded by Captain
Langle, who also officer of distinguished
merit. His officers were among the most accom-
plishei 81 the Royal Navy, and his
picked men. lie accompanied by a large
number OF men CT science, who were furnished
with instruments OF every descrp ion for the most
exact observations. All the learned societies fur
nished memoirs, and al the governments OF Europe
offered the protection aud assistance OF their marine
Louis XVI. is said to have drawn up the instruc-
lions for tie voyage with his own hand, and the
expedition was regarded one which Did fair to
render his reign iliusl Ious. The two rigates dou-
bled Cape Horn, visit ed the Sandwich Islands, and
arrived the North West Coast of America, in
lat. IS North, and there discovered deep bay
whlrh they called Port Francois, without having
lost man, or had aay sickness.
In an island in this bay they tool. in a supply Of
wood and water, and were about to take their de-
pariure, when unfortunately two boats, which were
employed in making some surveys, were driven
upon breakers, and every person on board them was
lost, including Blk distinguished officers. They
then proceeded souherly, reconholteTing The
western coast OF America, arrived at Macao in
ITy,- and uf erv r,le AZ Manila
iheS proceeded northsrly, by long and difficult
tract. aboJn1ng with islands. and arrived at Await
seha, in the peninsula of Kamscbatka. Thence they
sailed on the Ist oil October 1881, to explore the
islands OF japan, sad the strait which separates
ihsm from Asia Ga the 9Th OF December, a
party landed Oh one OF the islands, and Yio-
ieBily attacked by party of the natives, and Cap
tain I4,ngle, who commanded the party in person
was massacred. with eleven OF his men, and great
number OF o hers severely wounded. After
lais disaster, La Perouse proceeded to Botany Bay
whence lac sailed again in the beginning OF the year
1888, and from that time nothing has been heard
o. him. The journal OF his expedition up to this
peIiod, with memoirs and scientific collections
was cent to france, and splendid account Of the
voyage was published in four quarto volumes. In
1891, the government Of france sent out Two
vessels in search of the lost travellers, but they re-
.urned without having discovered the least trace Of
them and the same fate attended all subsequent ia
quiries
Bot the Paris papers just received, contain
number Of authentic documents, relating variety
of facts which justify the supposi'iSn that the place
where the two ifi2ates lost las been discover
"a, and that within very short period at least
soma Of The Survivors OF the wreck were yet in
existence. The principal facts, now proved, are
TIE following:
Capt Dillon who. in 1873, an officer on
board the Bengal ship Hunter, Captain Robson,
on a voyage from Calcutta 10 New Holland, the
i5ands Of FIJj and Canton, was shore at a
togn called Villain, on the Sandal Wood Coast,
v hen quarrel arose, IN which, OF several Euro
pesns wins we're there, nearly all were killed. a
Prussisn named Martin Bucheu, who happened to
be there, and Lascsr, escaped from the massacre,
and with Dillon, got on board the Hunter, request
ing Captain Robson 10 put them ashore on the
drst land they should make. Accordingly lSuchert
and ihe Iascsr were landed al the island Of Tu
copia, in S. lat 70, Is, Il. lon lCO. Thirteen
years afterwards, viz. on The 1S b Of Nav LAST
Capt. Dillon, who was then ia command Of the
ship 81. Patrick, bsund fs0m Valparaiso to Pom
ichefry, happened TO pass IN sight Of the island Of
T5rOpis. Excited By curiosity, AMI on inte est
for his old companions n danger, he came TOO be
fore T1copis, IN tie hope Of ascsf aiming whether
the aea WHOM he had landed there in 1913, were
s.ill five lie sccn sa7 canoe laraHi from the