North Wales Gazette

CAPTAIN PARRY'S VOYAGE. 1 CONTINUED. [THE privations which we endure, while in the enjovment of health, are the lightest of human afflictions. It is, when subdued by sickness, that the want of comforts imposes real misery. The following picture of sickness among theEsquimaux ought to teach the most unhappy Europeans pa- tience/and even gratitude, that our worst calami- ties are so light, by comparison with the sufferings of on- fellow creatures in the inhospitable regions, in which the scene is laid.] '• On the 23d Takkee-likkee-ta came to the Hecla according to his promise, and was supplied with various comforts for his wife and child. As however their principal want of comfort arose from the coldness and moisture of their present quarters, Captain Lyon proposed to him to bring them to the Hecla. To this the man joyfully as- sented and, being furnishd with a sledge and dogs soon brought the invalids on board, where they were comfortably lodged in Captain Lyon's cabin, and attended with all the care that their situation required, and that humanity could sug- gest. Besides the child that vnts ill, another also ecomranied them named Sheya, pleasing and uncommonly intelligent girl about eleven years of age whom we now found to have been one ol the individuals I saw in Lyon Inlet during the summer of 1S21. In the evening I sent my servant to the village, for the purpose of going into all the huts (which from the lowness and indescriba- ble filth of the passages was no easy or pleasant task) to see what other sick there might be. He reported, on his return, that a young man named Piccooyak, a great favourite with our officers and ship's company, was in a very weak condition, and that his wife and another female were lying beside him to keep him warm, at the same time crying most piteously. Early on the following morning, therefore, I despatched Mr. Crawford on the sledge to bring Viccooak tc.ibe ship but alas his miseries here were at end, for he had breathed his last on the preceding evening, within an hour after we had first been informed of his illness His wife Kogo, a young woman lately brought to bed, was lying about the snow beside the road, and making lamentations that bespoke much more sincere grief than the cutting off of hair which the widows here did not always practice. We did not, however, at this time know what bit- ter cause of lamentation this event was to prove to poor Koga. Mr. Crawford thought he could not now bet- ter execute his instructions than in bringing to the ship a young man of the name of Kooeetseek, who was very much debilitated by the long eon. tinuance of a rheumatic complaint; ha wall ac. cordingly lodged in our sick bay together with his sister, an intelligent child about nine years of age, named Kirko-warioo, who accompanied him as his nurse. Ttiviatter soon became domesticat- ed among us, and, being well cleaned and dressed in European dothes, amused us greatly by her vivacity and intelligence. Indeed it required no long acquaintance with this poor child, to con- vince us that art and education might easily have made her equal or superior to ourselves, or, as some of our gentlemen at the time remarked, that there were in reality more shades of dirt than or any ether difference subsisting between H*. Scarcely had these arrangements been made OR board the Fury, "en w,. heart of the death I of Capt. Lyon's patient, her extremely debilitated state rendering it impossible to rally her by any meptns that could be devised. The circumstances attending the death and burial of this poor woman and her child, affording an insight into some of the customs of the Esquimaux on these occasions, are thus related by Capt. Lyon, to whom I am in- debted for the account. 4 The mother Poo-too-atook was about thirty five years of age, the child about three years—yet not weaned, and a female there was also ano- ther Shaga, about twelve or thirteen years of age, who as well as her father was a most attentive nurse. My hopes were but small as far as con- cerned the mother, but the child was so patient that I hoped from its docility soon to accustom it to soups and nourishing food, as its only com- plaint was actual starvation. I screened off a portion of my cabin, and arranged some bedding for them, in the same manner as the Esquimaux do their own.—Warm broth, dry bedding, and a comfortable cabin did wonders before evening, and our medical men gave me great hopes. As an introduction to a system of cleanliness, and preparatory to washing the sick who were in a most filthy state, I scrubbed Shega and her father erom head to footand dressed them in new clothes. During the night I persuaded both mother and child, who were very restless and constantly moaning, to take a few spoonfuls of soup. On the morning of the 21th the woman appeared con- siderably improved, and she both spoke and ate a little. As she was covered with so thick a coat- ing of dirt that it could be taken off in scales.— [ obtained her consent to wash her face and hands a little before noon. The man and his daughter I now came to my table to look at some things I had laid out to amuse them and after a few mi- nutes Shega lifted the curtain to look at her mo- ther, when she again let it fall and trembling told us she was dead. "• The husband sighed heavily, the daughter burst into tears, and the poor child made the mo- ment more distressing by calling in a plaintive tone on its mother, by whose side was lying. Ide- terinined oil burying the woman on shore, and the husband was much pleased at my promising that the body should be drawn on a sledge by men in- stead of dogs for to our horror Takkeelikkeeta had told me that dogs had eaten part of Keiinoo- seuk, and that when he left the huts with his wife .s I e(I it. one was devouring the body as he passed it. Takkeelikkeeta now prepared to dress the dead body, and in the first place stopped his nose with deer's hair and put on his gloves, seeming unwilling that his naked hand should come in contact with the corpse. I observed in this oc- cupation his care that every article of dress should be as carefully placed as when his wife was living, and having drawn the boots on the wrong legs, lie pulled them off again and put them properly this ceremony finished,the deceased was sewed up in a hammock, and at the husband's urgent request her face was left uncovered. An officer who was present at the time agreed with me in fancying that the man, from his words and actions, intimated a wish that the living child mighi be enclosed with its mother. We may have been mistaken, but there is an equal probability that we were right in our conjecture; for according to Crantz and Egede the (ireinlaii(ters were in the habit of burying their motherless infants from a persuasion that they must otherwise starve to death, and also from being unable to bear the cries of the littk* ones while lingering for several days without susten- ance for no woman will give them any share of their milk, which they consider as the exclusive property of their own offsping. My dogs being carefully tied up at the man's request, a party of our people accompauied by me drew the body to the shore, where we made a grave about a foot deep, being unable toget lower on account of the frozen earth. The body was placed oil its back at the husband's and he then •stepped into the grave, and cut all the stitchesof the hammock; although without throwing it open, e seeming to iinply that the dead should be left un- confined. I laid a woman's knife by the side ot the body and we filled up the gave, over which we also piled a quantity of heavy stones which no animal could remove. When all was done and we returned to the ship, the man lingered a few minutes behind us and repeated two or three sen- tences, as if addressing himself to his departed wife; he then silently followed. We found Shega qiiite composed and attending her little sister, between whose eve-brows she had made a spot with soot, which í learned was because being un- weaned it must certainly die. During the night my little charge called on its mother without intermis- sion, vet the father slept as soundly until morning as if nothing had happened. -iA I who saw my patient on the morning of the 25th gave me great hopes she cauldswallow easilv ati-d was even strong enough to turn or sit upright without assistance, and In the forenoon slept very soundly. At noon the sister of the de- ceased, Ootooguak, with her husband and son, came to visit me. She had first gone to the r ury, and was laughing on deck, and at her own lequest was taken below, not caring to hurry herself to come to the house of mourning. Even \vhen she came to the Hecla, she was in high spirits, laugh- ing and capering on deck as if nothing had hap- pened, but on being shown to my cabin, when) Shega having heard of her arrival was sitting crying in readiness, she began with her niece to howl most woefully. I however put a stop to this ceremony, for such it certainly was, under the plea of its disturbing the child. The arrival of a pot of smoking walrus-flesh soon brought smiles on all faces but that, of Takkeelikkeeta, who re- fused food and sat sighing deeply the others ate, chatted, and laughed, as it'nothing but eating was worth thinking of. Dinner being over, I received thanks for burying the woman in such a way that neither woives, dogs, nor foxes could dig her up and eat her," for all were full of the story of Keimooseuk, and even begged some of our officers to go to Igloolik and shoot the offending- dogs. A young woman named Ablik, sister to Ooyara, was induced, after much entreaty and a very large present of beads, to offer breast to the sick child, but the poor little creature pushed it angrily away. Another woman was asked to do thesaiue but although hor child was half weaned she flatly refused. The tttin t of my little one seeming anxious ,g to remain, and Shega being now alone, I invited her to stop the night. In the evening the child took meat and jelly and sat up to hold itself, but it soon after resumed its melancholy cry for its mother. At night my party had retired to sleep, yet 1 heard loud sighing occasionally, and on lifting the curtain I saw Takkeelikeeta standing and looking Mournfully at his child. I endeavour- ed to compose him and he promised to go to bed but hearing him again sighing in & few minutes I ifent and found the poor infant was dead, and that its ratherhatl been some timeltWllrfJ of it. He now told me that it had seen its mother the last time it called on ber, nd that she had beckoned it to Khil-la, (H^sven.) He said it was good" that the child Wail gone, that nn children out-lived their mothers, and that the black spot which Shego had frequently renewed was quite suffici- to insure the death of the infant."

OXALIC ACID TAKEN FOR SALTS. Ow Monday an inquisition was taken before C. J. Jeanneti, lsq. at the Crown and Cushion public-house, Bermondsey, on the body of Mr. Joliti Bell, late n clerk in the employment of Messrs. Barber, wharfingers, of Tooley-street, who died on Thursday last, in consequence of taking oxalic acid, in mistake for Epsosn salts. Mr. Thomas of Page's-walk, Bermondsey, in whose house the deceased lodged for the last 14 years, deposed that on the night oftlie^th instant the deceased came home about half past ^o'clock he asked witness's wife for some hotwater, which he said he wanted for the purpose of dissol ving a dose of salts he wished to take, and which lie had purchased that day. The water was given to him and he retired to his bed-room, adjoiningwttness's. Soon after witness's wife heard the deceased groaning, and on entering his room he appeared to be in dreadful agony, writhing about the bed. Witness said, My God, Bell, what have yen been taking V* Deceased replied, Oh j I shall die what have they given me?" Witness imme- diately went fora surgeon, but the deceased was quite dead on his return. Robert Craker, a hairdresser in that neighbour- hood, deposed, that he had been acquainted with the deceased for the last 14 years. On the evening of the 8th inst. the deceased'came to his shop, Sut down, and got shaved. He then complained of having a very violent stitch, or cramp, in his side and said he had taken rhubarb, but derived no be- nefit, or alleviation of his pain, from it; that he was going home early, for the purpose of taking a dose of salts, which he said he had got in his pocket. The deceased then went away- One of the Jurymen asked witness, if he per- ceived any alteration in the deceased's manner or behaviour on that night. Witness replied, that he did not, although the deceased appeared to be labouring under very severe. bodily pain yet his mental faculties were not in the slightest de- gree affected. Mr Castle, the surgeon, deposed to tus having examined the body of the deceased, which pre- sented the usual appearance of persons who died in consequence of taking any active mineral poi- son In the room he observed a tumbler, that de- posited a sediment, which, on examination he found was oxalic acid. A small portion of that active poison also adhered to a piece of paper which was on the drawers. Witness added that the deceased must have taken nearly an ounce of the P°Th"'jury here inquired if the constable, or any of the witnesses, had ascertained at what shop the unfortunate deceased had received poison in- stead of salts. W. Painter, the constable, said that every in- quiry had been set on foot by them to ascertain that fact, but they were unsuccessful. TheJury reprobated the conduct of apothecaries through whose negligence, in not properly distin- guishing between salts and poison, so many fatal accidents had happened. A verdict of Deceased, in consequence of taking oxalic acid in mistake of Epsom salts," was then recorded. —<Sk—

J POETRY. COOKEY'S LOVE LETTER. DEA't EDOAR. dear Edgar, to thee I'm now sendiug "My love and my dripping by Sally our maid, And your sweet litile song-book, with thanks for the lending And a dozen of nice pens to he made. Accept, my sweet Edgar, I pray you this present, This leg of a goose, duck, turkey, and pig The pie made of pigtfons, this half of a pheasant, This bottle of claret, my ,Eitgal', to swigc. This venison fasty, which t made raiher hasty, I But I'm fearful 'tis not like the last: And as you're in the habit of eating of rabbit, I send the whole of the breast-. The parsley & butter, it might have been better, Which I send you on this hit of veal; But don't you refuse it, but pray do excuse it, And, my Edgar, accept this cow hael. We've a party OIl Sunday, don't fail on the Monday, .1 My Edgar, to come with thy bag; We have all sorts of dainties, such venison pas- ties But. stay, 'twas I made them, so I must not bi ag. Dear Edgar, adieu be cor.s'ant, be true, With hunger you never shall die Whilst mistress has meat, you always shall eat; Don't forget me, and never will 1.

ANGLESEY— MOS MAMGYMRY. Oh gracious Isle of Anglesey, Dear Plenty's lov'd abode Where laughing Ceres joyously Doth harvest sledges load Thine, thine, is pleasant pasturage W'here niveons flocks range free, Fair's each sea scene—meads, hillocks green, Sweet Isle of Anglesey. Salubrious Isle of Anglesey That wholesome bree7.es sweep, And rosy health, in purity Breathes over from the deep. Thy sons are strong in manliness, No hearts more kind can be, Soft, fresh and fair, thy maidens raro, Sweet Isle of Anglesey. Oh plenteous Isle of A When famine rules the year And stalks o'er Wales,—ne'er mangles thee, Nor dauntsfthy hearted cheer Then thou'rt the land of hope to all, The gen'ral granary Gay garden sweet, with bliss replete, Dear Isle of Anglesey. Oh costliest Isle, fair Anglesey, Old Cvmru's brilliant gem A sparklet Gwynelh ûwu'ù in thee, Pride of her diadem Oh Mona! beauteous Mona hail! Fond ocean's arms clasp thee For Druid love in days of yore High prized was Anglesey.* This Island (the celebrated MONA of the Ro- mans, and undent seat of the Druids) is blessed with a eery fruitful soil, producing most sorts of grain, especially wheat, n such abundance, thai we eom,monly term it Mon Mam Gymru- i. e. Mona, the nursery or mother of Wales," became the Principality i. fretlncntly supplied from thenee in unseasonable years.

:t- ENGLYNION B ddatgenai y Parch. Daniel Evans, A. C. yn ei i/mrrelhid a L'hipndcilhas Gytnreigyddawl Aber- ystwith, ar ei Chyleli-Wyl Flynyddawl ddi- n-eddaf. CEREDIGION, ceir dy agwedd-o bryd Rhyw Baradwys geinwedd Am win glan y gan deg wedd, Sychedir syw iach agwedd. pob bryn a phob glyn o'n gwlad—gu weddus, Sv'n gwaeddi am ganiad A Beirddion, fel meiilion mad, Wyr difyr, sydd ar dyfiad. Gwregys mynyddau grugog—a yrrant, Yn wiwrwydd a gwresog, Allan gan o lais y gog, Dda hwyl, trwy'n bro ddihalog. Bwthyn nid oes heb ieithydd—a chwiliwr Iach hoywlais y wenydd, A'r gan a red ar gynnydd Yn syw deg bob nos a dydd. Hardded yw llais y Beirddion—trwy gyrrau Tra geirw Ceredigion; Canant o Capel Cynon Yn hyfedr hyd Lanbedr Ion. Gwelwch Ystrad-Meurig wiwlan-hoywfyg Lwys Hafod mewn anian, Tdonna' dir, yn llawn o dan Er yr Awen eirian. Os Edward Rhiriard rhosyn-y Deau, Sy'n (lawel oer briddyn, Ei yspryd o hyd, er hyn, Ei hen anneddsy'n ennyn. A berystwith sy'n Ilwytitog-o ddoniau, o ddyaiOtl godidog Uiau ceir yn tiodeuog Yman gain dmyn y gog.. Hoff rad y ceir y ffi-N dio-yr Awen Fwyn iywiog, heb flino, byth yo. ddidrai y bo Llif anwyl ei Yief yno. Ei thoddi gan araetliyddion —a gaiff Y irij hoflaidd galon ?,lae'n dot'th,\e¡' mor der a'r don Arnnylandrefunion. Sywddieu Gymdeithas ddiwyd-hoywlan Ei rheolau hyfryd hyfwyn Lywydd hefyd A gvidw Irliain yn gain i gyd. Diwyd yn Llwyn-rhyd-Owen— (dewLiwaith) A Llandyssil addien, Y parth lie mae'n ferw pob pen 0 rywiog ffrwd yr Aweu. Llwydd gwiwl-,tn i'r gan fwyn gu,—a'r Awen Orenwych trwy Gymru, Ifyn vw'w)-ilys diballu Dyn o wael ddawn. DASIEI DDU.

.4 WESTERN CIRCUIT-TAUNTON. Before Mr. Sergeautf Hosatupiet and a Special Jury. CIViL SIDE. OOIHORN V. WILLIAMS AND OTHERS* MH. "VtLDE said he had to submit a case to the consideration of the Court, which in his view, was deserving of peculiar attention. He had to complain, on the part of Mr. Ogborn, a respectable yeoman of Willscomb of an aggravated assault, made on him by the five defendants, all of whom were moving in society in the rank ofgentemen The only provocation which the plaintnt had given for this attack, that was made on him was, that he did not suffer the defendants to ride over his grounds merely for their amusement while engaged in hunting. The defendants were the Rev. Mr. Williams, the Rev. Mr. Rogers, Capt. Vaughan, Mr. H. Fry, and Mr. Rich, and the four first defendants having rode on horseback into Mr. Ogbom's field, without permission, he restrained Mr. Rich from doing so, by seizing the bridle of his horse. While he was engaged in an altercation with him, the other defendants returned to the gate where they were disputing, and all of them began in a violent and unmerciful manner to beat the plaintiff with their whips and sticks for nearly ten minutes, till he was dnven through the hedge and compelled to retire, leav- ing the assailants in possession ot the lieut. What excuse, or rather, he should say, palliation they could offer, he (Mr. Wilde) did not Imow, but if it were shown that the plaintiff had done no more than his duty as an Englishman, in Pro- tecting his property, the Jury would rielibeidtely deal out such justice, in the form of damages, as would protect the fannef from such invasions of his property in future. William Adams, on the 2Stli Octol er last, saw Mr. Rich on horseback at the gate of fanner Og- born's field. The Rev. Mr. Williams, Rev. Mr. Rogers, Capt. Vaughan, Mr. Fry, and Mr. RICH, were riding over the field. Mr. Rich when he came up, pushed his horse into the field. Ogborn took hold of the brittle, and said, you ha«. e no took hold of the brittle, and said, you ha' e no right here, and here you shall not come, as my ground is wet, and 1 do not wish to Iuye it pounded about." The other gentlemen, seeing the dispute at the gate, returned and one of them cried -out, put it into the son of a ——, g ve it to the scoundrel." Capt. Vaughan was the first who struck the defendant. The others assisted in beating the farmer as hard as they were able, with their whips and sticks, for nearly ten mi- nutes. They drove him through the hedge into the road, and he then escaped. Mr. Williams said, if the farmer had stopped his horse, as he had Mr. Rich's, and he (Mr. Williams) had a brace of pistols, he would have shot him, and he further said, that the next time he came into that country, he would bring a brace of pistols with him, and if Ogborn then interrupted him, he would blow his brains out." Ogborn had a spade in his hand which they then took from him. Cl-oss-examiiied. -All the defendants were on the farmer at once, striking him about his head, back, and legs. Joel Brooks was also present and saw the assault on the plaintiff. The farmer had a spade tin his shoulder, which in the struggling with the horse worked off his shoulder, but he never attempted to use it in his defence, Mr. Sergeant Pell on the part of the defendants, said he wlU prevented from QiklUO& witnesses to answer the case, that had been set up, for the plaintiff had made every person present at the transaction, who was notin his own interest, party defendants on this record. His friend, Mr. Wilde, in his opening speech, had alluded to an indict- metit, which the present defendants had preferred against Mr. Ogborn, for the same assault which he now said was made on him; and he (the Learn- ed Sergeant) had heard it said this day, that the evidence then offered was so flimsy, that although the defendant had been found guilty, the Court considered that a fine of one shilling was a suffi- cient punishment for the offence. He was pre- cluded from giving evidence respecting that pro- secution, but if the Jury could suppose that a conviction had taken place, that would guide them to form a proper estimation of this action, and they would give a verdict accordingly. Mr. Sergeant liosanquet said the Jury could only form an estimation of the case by the evi- dence that was laid before them, and as no pro- ceedings of an indictment had been produced, they were to suppose that none existed. Upon the statement that had been in Court, the plaintiff had entitled himself to a verdict, but it was for the Jury to say what damages he was entitled to re- ceive by their verdict. The Jury retired for upwards of four hours, when they returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with t 120 damages. CROWN COURT. Henry Ilippesley, a person of respectability living near Shepton Mallet, was indicted for an attempt to make an assault on Miss Richards, the sister of Mi-. Scott, the landlord of the Bell Inn, at Shepton. Miss Richards examined, by Mr. Erskine.-She stated that she was left in the care other brother's house during his temporary absence in the coun- try in the beginning of July last. On the oth of July, the defendant, who was a Sheriff's officer in the neighbourhood of Shepton, came to the Bell Inn, where he was well known, about six in the evening. He desired her to take a glass of cider to a large room, at the extremity of a long dark passage, which she did, and was followed immediately by the defendant. As she was re- tiring from the room he put his hand outside the door to get the key. lie confined her in the room, by shutting the door; and she then said what are you going about; if you lock the door, t will cry murder." He made no answer, but pushed her with violence against the door.— She made all the resistance she could, and callod for John, the Ostler, who was in a distant part of the premises, t. come to her aid. The defend- ant placed a large mahogany chair against the door, and threw her with.force upon it. She cried murder," and entreated him to desist. He endeavoured to stop her cries by putting his hand before her mouth He did not complete his purpose. She kept calling for help; and on say- ing to the defendant she thought she heard some one coming, he said I'll he ill don't Hearing a person at the door, she said, "Jöhn is coming," and the defendant immediately jumped up and pushed her with violence out of the room. At the door she saw John, the ostler, and went with him into the tap-room in an exhausted con- dition. ¡ Cross-examined by Jfr. R-UMP(isi;She did not go before a Ju-stioe on the subject, but she told an attorney of the defendant's conduct, and, by his aduce, she indicted fliplj,s (.y. t the Ailze;, which v/erfi then about to commence, in prefer- ence to going before a Magistrate. The defend- ant is about sixty. Miss Richards, who appeared to be about 22, was rigoioisly examined as to the situatio 1 of various parts of the premises, ai d as to thi re- various pa. ts of the premises, ai d as to thi re- sisance she mada. To all these questions she I gave such answers as sufficiently showed that the attack had been most distressing to her feelings, and perfectly unwarrantable from Any concessions made on her part. John Cottle, the ostl«r at the Inn, first saw the defendant in the tap-ro< m, and afterwards he went to 'the long room, at the end of a dark passage, which was sometimes used for the accommoda- tion of company. He saw Miss Richards take a glass of cider in the same direction. While he was cleaning knives in '-) ci-,ilar, nearly forty yards distant from the room the defendant went into, he heard the cry of murder coming from that room, and immediately went there. As he was in the act of putting his hand to the latch of the door, Miss Richards came out. She was crying, and the hair was hanging about her shoulders. He followed her to the tap-room, and, on asking her what was the matter, she pointed to her dress, and said Ilippesley has been serving her like this. Her dress wa. iniich disordered, and her handker- chief was torn from her bosom. She said she would make the defendant know better than this and then went up stairs to witness's wife, who was at work in the dining-room. Cross-examined.—He had not quite got to the door when it was opened. He did not see Mr. Hippesley in the room. The door was not suffi- ciency open for him to see all over the room. IlIr. Justice Burrough said, that cases of the description of the present were, of all others, the most easy to be brought forward, and for that reason a Jury ought to look with strict attention to all the circumstances which were advanced in support of them, and particularly to the mode in which the female herself gave evidence. His I ordship had watched the manner in which Miss Richards had related the circumstances of this case, and he could not discover that there was the slightest reason for presuming that her con- duct had not been strictly correct. The Jury, however, would judge of that themselves, and not return a verdict of guilty, unless they were well satisfied the defendant had conducted liiiiiselfin the manner imputed lo him. The Jurv found the defendant Guilty. Mr. Justice Burrough, in passing sentence on the prisoner, said this as ault had been committed un- der aggravated circumstances, that showed the defendant had been in the habit of indulgin<>- in bad habits for a long period of his life. The offence was the more aggravated by bein<r com- mitted in the house of Miss Richards's brother, at a time when he, who was her protector, wa absent from home. It was of the utmost im- portance that crimes of this kind should be se- verely punished, because thev might materi-iiu- affect the reputation of a female, and ruin her future prospects, there being people foolish enough to suppose that such attacks must be drawn cn bv some indiscretion on the part, of the woman far as his Lordship had observed, he saw nothing whatever improper in the conduct of the female who had been examined, but, on the contrary, he believed the blame entirely rested with the de- fendant, and he must be punished accorciiiigly. The sen e ce of the Court was, that he should be imprisoned for the space of eighteen months.

ALGIERS. THE following particulars, descriptive of Al- giers, at present blockaded by a British squadron, may not be uninteresting to our readers: The town itself is but little more than haIr a mile squate-the inhabitants about one hundred and twenty thousand surround^ bv fortifica- tions on Vadium's plan of a foit. The square covered by fortifications is not equal to a mile.— The face of the wall fronting the sea equal to three quarters of a inilo; the sides projecting to the country the same; but the face towards the country about half a wile; at each of the four corners a ciyculaj bustiou, projecting far enough to command the faces of small square batteries issuing from the curtain. The town is built along the sinuous part of a bay, or casual indenting of the coast, not running deep enough into the land to afford shelter; the shore flat, and the water too shallow to serve for anchorage. The port is in the centre of the wall towards the sea its con_ stuction is altogether artificial; an immensely strong wall is thrown out about 500 yardit at 200 yards distance farther eastward a mole 100 yards long is thrown out; the wall, which is of extraordinary strength and width, is continued eastward, and bending inwards by two angles to- wards the mole, leaves an entrance of about 150 yards to an irregular shaped bason, inclosing an area of about ten acres. The pier or wall that embraces and forms the bason or port is oftho most massive construction, and its extensive for- tifications, rising in tiers like the sides of a shin present the most formidable offensive works to arr assailing enemy. The walls are covered with guns, and the coast, right and left of the town covered with batteries, as well as to protect it against a landing as to flank and gall an attack os the front of the place by sea. There are also many advanced works of irregular construction and a citadel in the S. E. angle of the city, occu-. pying one of the corner bastions. At the formidable attempt made by Charles ther Fifth with a fleet of 120 ships, 20 gallies, and an army of 30,000 men, aided by the Knights of Malta he was enabled, by means of the "•allies to land Ins army and materiel, notwithstanding the flatness of the shore bm the lut,, i quence of laying on such a coast was^thaTthi? first heavy gale of wind drove off the'fleet the- whole of which in half an hour, were dispersed and in the extremity of danger (except the Mai- tese who by their superior skill and equipment maintained their position on the coast, to the ad- miration of the terrified army #)n shore, to whom, they presented a solitary but slight prospect of salvation from the enemy) 15 gallies and 8ti ships of the Emperor's totally perished; the loss of men consequent on the embarkation, wnder such circumstances, was immense. Although the Mal- tese contribuied the most extensive co-operation of their navy, only 419 knights, each attended by two gentlemen at arms, were permitted to serve in the army. These knights, in the spirit of chi- valrous gallantry, to render themselves conspicu- ous, wote over their armour a surtout of crimson velvet, with the star of their order emblazoned in white on the front of their breast, and served) as the rear-guard, covering the whole of the em- barkation, being themselves the last who went on board. On one occasion, a very formidable sortie hav- ing been made by the Alget-ities, a large body of troops were cnt off, but the Maltese rallying somo detachments, repulsed the enemy so vigorously, that the Chevalier Sevignan, standard-bearer of the order, stuck his poignard into the gate of the- city, and left it there momeuto. In 1601, the Spaniards made another attack on Algiers, which was supposed a fortunate expe- dition, because they came off without loss; but they effected nothing. In 1602, an English squadron, under Sir Robt Maxwell, were no more fortunate than the S„» niards the year before; but in I6S2, a V,KJ'X fleet bembacded the town and set it in flames and next year repeating the attack wi:h increased vigour, procured the release or all the Christian captives, and the payment of a heavy fine in money; among the captives were several English, who, to the disgrace of the French nation, were sent back by Capt. Dumfreville, the French Coin- missioner after which the fortifications were ex- tended and increased. -Since the possession of Gibraltar, in fear of our strength, and in obedi- ence to conciliatory measures, the depredations ofjhe Algerines were carried on against all other Christian Powers, but they continued to resoect the ships of this country. In 1775, the Spaniards made an unsuccessful attempt with upwards of 20,0«0 troops 2 000 horses, 47 sliips of war, 310 transports. In 1783 and 1784, the same nation made two attacks, which only terminated in the expends ture ot a vast quantity of ammunition benition' oTslIve^l^'r't'0 thli fi S ?",m of money- 11 is> however, thought mat the city is almost unassailable—that the pi- rates have benefitted from his Lordship's assault, to render the forts now invulnerable—and that' because of the immense population of the adjoin- ing country, their religion and fanaticism, any attempt to uproot this detestable land of African thieves must prove fruitless and unavailing, whilst it will be at the price of mueh blood, without es- caping the disgrace of being foiled. We have to regret the loss of the chivalrous Knights of St. John. Under the banners of the cross, they were wont to scour the Mediterranean of pitates and plunderers; but as they are locked up in the grasp of death, so are their estates confiscated to- other hands, or now, by virtue of sacrilege, ia the possession of Germany, PrBSSia FranV*. Spain, &c. A short tim4 ago we hPnrA something about a loan for the remains of this ortior. -Was it tore-establish their former power, and to be applied in an endeavour to renew the spirit of chivalry and enterprize, for which they were at One time bSme c tf 4 Sentleman whose curiosity led him to view .1 "U|nan bones which had been thrown up from olfl burying ground of St, Peter's parish, in j'lis town, found his attention caught by a very handsome row of teeth, which occupied the jaw of the skeleton, and perhaps, as he wigbtfancy, once ornamented the month of some pretty female, —The teeth are of the middle sise, of regular growth, finelv enamelled, fast in their soeket.. and without the least symptom o £ dec&y, which, considering that the skelelon had lain-buried be." tween two and three hundred years, greately sur- prised the gentleman, but in fact there was nothing- surprising in it, as we have seen skulls, after having been inhumed from six hundred to a thou- sand years, exhibit full sets of teeth, equally un-. marked by decav, and as it were, bidding defiance to the tooth oj time-Le/ves Journal. 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