Virginia statesman. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1828-1829, 1828-06-11

Instantly changed hands and disappeared
and the plundered owner found that the
latch of the door was tied down with whip
cord and that he must get through the win
dow to follow the thieves. No person but
a master could have planned or superin-
tended such a robbery as this. The whole
did not occupy more than three or four Sc
conds. After Bushell was apprehended,
he wrote to the Frenchman charging him
with having done him irreparable injury;
the only answer he received was "Turpen-
tine is safe" London paper.
ASSASSINATION Of Major LANG and
Captain Clapperton.-It is with great con-
Germ thatwe state there is no longer any
doubt with respect to the fate of these en-
terprising, perseyering, but unfortunate
travellers. They have both been murder
ed. The Pacha of Tripoi has received
letters from one of his officers in the int
rior of Africa communicating the painful
intelligence.
It. appears that Major Laing was Sc
verely wounded by robbers in the territory
of Toualt. Having, however, recovered
in consequence of the kind attention Of a
marabout, or priest, he at length succeed
ed in reaching Timbuctoo. But he had
scarcely arrived, before the Foulahs, that
powerful and warlike horde which at pre-
sent reigns exclusively over the immense
deserts of central Africa, came, to the
number ofthirty thousand, and demanded
that Major Lang should be delivered up to
them, that they might put him to death;
"and thus" as they observed, prevent
Christian nations from receiving such in
formation as might enable them at some
future period, to penetrate into, and enslave
the countries of Africa" Before the arrl-
val of the Foulahs, twenty four chiefs, a.
mong whom was female called Mama
Beica, (Pnncess-Mother) commanded
simultaneously in Timbuctoo. One of
these Chiefs of the name of Othman-Vou-
id-Quad-Aboubekhr, had received Major
Laing into his house, on the recommenda-
ton of the Shelkil-Mohktar, with whom he
had taken refuge after having escaped the
daggers ofthe Hangers. "*-When the Fou-
labs presented themselves before Timbuc-
too, and demanded Major Laing's head,
his host, Gilman You'd uaid-Aboubekhr,
contrlved his escape at night, escorted by
several servants, who were supposed to be
Trustworthy. 1t unfortunately happened,
however, that one of them, ofthe name of
Rehhel, had been bribed by the FOulahs;
and this fellow not only delivered Major
Laing into their hands, but gave him the
first of the stabs under which he fell. EV-
cry body knows the praises which Denham
and Clapperton, in their narrative publish
ed two years ago, bestowed on the Sultan
Bello, the sovereign ofthese very Foulahs
who have Just assassInated Lalng, and
Clapperton himselE--lt was a relation Of
the Sultan Bello's. Naturalization, who
repaired to Timbuctoo, on the arrival of
Major Laing. After having accomplished
his immediate object, by the assassination
ofour brave friend, he destroyed the oligar-
chy in Timbuctoo, and established, as the
sole governor of the city, the very 9th
Observation-Disclosures, whom we
have already mentioned Poor Clapper-
ton was murdered at Sakatoo, the ordinary
residence ofthe Sultan Bello; nOtwithstand-
ing the kind reception which he had eXpe-
rienced from the Sultan on his first visit.
This double perfdy ofthe African Prince,
by whom these sanguinary acts have been
either ordered or permitted, and that after
having shown so much attachment TO the
English, appears to have been simply ow-
mo to the distrust created in his mind by
certain individuals, who represented our
unfortunate countrymen as spies sent for
the purpose ofascertaining the best means
of facilitating the cOnquestof this country.
The inhabitants Of Toualt.
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HAYTlAN PARADISE. Mr. Washington
irving observes, in his life of Columbus,
that the Haytians had an idea of place
Of reward, to which the spirits ofgood men
repaired after death, where they were re-
united to the spirits Of those they had most
loved during life, and to all their ancestors.
Here they enjoyed uninteHuPtedly, and
in perfection, those pleasures which consti-
tuted their felicity, on earth. They lived
IN shady and bIoornin0 bowarc with boauti.