A b An Expedition against the MOLOCCAS, alfo many other places, are occupied in clearing away the woods, and cultivating the grounds; for the native Malays are too indolent to be thus employed. They alfo carry on a retail traffic with merchandize, which they receive annually from China. It has been attempted to raise a plantation of spices here from the Moluccas; its chief importance is an harbour, the only refuge on the Eaftern coaft from the violence of the winter monfoon. s When Ceylon had furrendered, a few troops were embarked on board the fquadron of Admiral Rainier, to take poffeffion of the Moluccas, a groupe of ilands Eaftward of Calebes, rich in growth of nutmegs and cloves, the profits of which had long been enjoyed by the Dutch. The Swift failed from Madras near the end of October, laden with fhot, fhells, and other nilitary flores; and anchored, after a tedious paffage, at Prince of Wales's Ifland, in the Straits of Malacca, where we overtook the rest of the fquadron. This fettlement was firft obtained from the King of Queda, who governs the oppofite coaft. He gave his daughter to Captain Light in 1786, together with the Ifland as her dower, which the Captain afterwards delivered to the Eaft India Company. The fcenery of this little Ifland is beautiful*; it is extremely fertile, producing herbs and fruits in the greatest abundance; the pines are in fuch plenty that they fpring up in hedges; and beafts of prey, which abound on the oppofite Continent, are feldom met with. But the inhabitants are not always in fecurity; I remember an enormous ferpent, which was found in the fields twined about a buffaloe, which expired in its grafp; and I faw from the fhip a crocodile lurking on the fhore, which was driven away by the cannon of the fort, one of them having a fhort time before carried off a child. Indeed, confidering how much the inhabitants of this part of the globe are liable to fuch difafters, expofed to the wild beasts in the woods, the fharks and crocodiles in the waters, and the fcorpions and other pernicious reptiles haunting their very houfes, we cannot justly envy them the perpe. tual fummer of Afia. The laborious Chinese here, as in experiment to fucceed, I cannot learn. The harbour is a fafe and commo dious refuge for fhips returning from China, which may have fuffered by the tempeftuous gales frequent in those feas. And here, owing perhaps to the agitation of phofphoric particles, when the fea is difturbed at night by the oars of a boat, it appears as if the latter was furrounded by circles of fire; but the true caufe of this phænomenon has never been fatisfactorily explained. While the fquadron remained, the Swift was difpatched on various little fervices, as occafion required. We first cruifed among the Nicobar Iflands in fearch of a French privateer. Thefe Iflands are on the Eaft fide of the Bay of Bengal; the natives are mere inof fenfive favages; we traded with them for pigs, poultry, and large green parrots, which we had in exchange for rufty knives, and pieces of old iron. Some of them amufed us by appearing with European articles ridiculously mifapplied; thus one wore a pair of fpectacles in his cap, and another carried his fifhing-tackle in an old peruke. We failed in the object of our fearch; but one morning, during our return, we difcovered a neutral brig anchored fo near the fhore, that the over-hanging boughs at the edge of the woods almoft prevented us from perceiving her, and at firft caufed us to fufpect that the umbrage was intended as a concealment; and perhaps they practifed this fubterfuge from the dread of an ene my; for it was recollected that the mafier of a fmall trading veffel being once narrowly purfued by a privateer, went in behind one of thefe Ilands, and, finding a fteep place, where the margin of the woods dipped into the fea, he ran his fhip on fhore, and inftantly collected a great quantity of leafy boughs, with which the veffel was in a fhort time fo compleatly dif guifed, that, when his enemy arrived, they paffed him unheeded under a crowd of fail, Very it into the pinnace; hut just as the oais were taken up to proceed, it extended its horrid jaws in a convulfive agony; and as we apprehended that the animal might revive, we were fome moments in great alarm, but were foou convinced that it had no longer power to hurt us, and a a musket being thrust into its throat put an end to our fears it meafured above 12 feet in length, yet fome of them were confiderably larger, In about two hours we arrived at the village, which coufifis chiefly of bam boo huts; the Captain then waited on the Chief, who, in exchange for a few mufkets and a trifling quantity of am munition, agreed to furnish a fmall number of oxen and a few baskets of poultry, with which, after having taken fome refreshments, we returned to the fhip. E. C, Very foon after our return, the Admiral fent us with feveral launches to the refidence of the King of Queda, who governs that part of the Continent contiguous to Prince of Wales's Ifland. We had directions to treat with him for the purchase of cattle to fup ply the hips; and we anchored on the enfuing morning at the mouth of a rivulet. which led to the village where his Majesty refided. I accompanied the Captain in the pinnace, which, with the launches, proceeded at an early hour up this little meandering inlet, whofe fhores were prettily in terfperfed with a variety of pleafing objects; in fome places a rich verdure covered the banks, in others they difplayed the rugged face of a rock overhadowed by the thicket; fometimes we heard nothing but the fcreaming of parrots, at others we were delighted with the gambols of the monkeys, which now and then chattered on fuch flender twigs, that they feemed ready to drop into the flea weather was uncommonly beautiful, and the labours of the oar were al fifted by a gentle current. After we had for fome time enjoyed this agree, able feene, our attention was fuddenly attracted by a large animal, which was perceived baking in the fun on a low point of land formed by the winding of the ftream. We loft no time in loading our muskets, and on our nearer approach difcovered it to be a croco dile apparently watching for its prey. As this dangerous animal did not perceive us, we advanced towards it with caution, and the moment we were near enough for good an n we difcharged our pieces; the creature appeared to be wounded, but it infiantly rufhed into the water, and difappeared. It is faid thefe animals are fo ferocious, that, when oppreffed with hunger, they dare fometimes to attack the tiger, feizing him when he approaches to drink, and dragging him into the water, where a fierce conflict enfues, which is ufually fatal to both. Others we afterwards oblerved, which from their colour refembled at a distance the trunks of trees; when fired at, they inftantly glided down the flippery banks, and gained the ftream, except a young one, which had the ill-fortune to linger on fhore till it was deliroyed by a fecond volley when it ceafed to fruggle, our men ventured to land, and it feeming perfectly dead, they brought (To be continued,) Mr. URBAN, Y Bafing foke, March 17. vol. Lavand 1152, you will find that an anonymous correlpondent had favoured your readers with fome account of Holy-ghaft Chapel, at Bafing floke. The writer mentions fome infcriptions to the memory of fome of the antient and honourable family of the Cufauds, which he had not the opportunity of tranfcribing. Had your Correfpondent made the attempt, he would have found it impracticable to obtain a complete copy of the most remarkable of the infcriptions, as the flone on which it was infcribed had for many years been broken, and the larger portion of it removed from the burying-ground of the chapel. Having been fortunate enough to discover the portion that was loft, in a fituation where the remaining infcription is likely to be foon entirely defaced, (namely, as the threfhold of a houfe, where it is every day trodden upon) I have obtained a copy of the infcription, that may be confidered as exact, and pretty nearly complete. Perhaps you will have the goodnefs, Mr. Urban, to refcue from oblivion this memorial of a family that has for many years been extinct, by inferting it in your Magazine. It is accompanied by another to the memory of one of the fame family, which, with the tomb on which it is infcribed, is fill complete. The inferiptions are in Roman capitals. "In piovs memory of Simeon Cufayd of Cufavd in Hampshire, 500 years And of Francis his wife, daughter of that learned and five fonnes the deare pledges of their Greatnes, with a modeft eye the body of John Cufaude of the Mr. URBAN, J. J. March 17. IN "The Philofophical Survey of the IN South of Ireland," published in 1777, and faid to be written by Dr. Campbell, is the following account of the monument of the Lord Bowes Carefull Mothers, Widdows, Wives, Where fuch rare perfection's found." "In the have is a monument of Lord Bowes, late High Chancellor of Ireland. It reprefents Juftice large as life, in a penfive attitude, looking at a medallion, with his Lordship's head in relief, which The holds in her hand, weeping over it. The thought is a good one, and well expreffed." As Dr. Campbell does not give the infeription, I fubjoin a copy of it: ་་་ "Sacred to the memory of John Lord Bowes, late Lord Chancellor of Ireland, who died in the feventy-fixth year of his age, July 22, A. D. 1767. This monument is erected by his affectionate brother, Rumfey Bowes, efq. of Binfield, Berks." Can any of your correfpondents fayour me with particulars of the Bowes family? The Chancellor was created Baron Bowes of Clonlyon; appointed Feb. 22, 1765, Lord Juftice of Ireland, in the abfence of the Lord Lieutenant, and again June 11, 1766, together with Charles Earl of Drogheda, and John Ponsonby, efq. His Lordship died in the government, July 22, 1767, when the barony of Bowes of Clonlyon became extinct. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, in Chrift ON Church, Dublin. BIOGRAPHICUS. Richmond, Yorkshire, N the Yorkshire coaft, about 8 fmall 7 fmall village of the name of Filey, chiefly inhabited by fifhermen; it overlooks a beautiful bay, four or five miles in extent. On the North fide the bay is fhut in by an earthy high fhore, and by a jutting rock, which runs out into the fea not much elevated above the water, for a quarter of a mile, and is called Filey Brig. In the middle the shore is flat. Towards the South the Bay is bounded by a long range of fteep white rocks, which extend in different promontories as far as Flamborough head. In October 1802, being in the neighbourhood, I rode on to fee Filey; I arrived there late in the evening; a heavy rain with a land wind fpent the night, and in the morning the rain and wind ftill continued. The view of the Bay was then obfcure and invigorating the body. The white rocks, the extenfive fands, the fine curvature of the Bay, the fnowy foam, and the ever-interefting Ocean, aided by a bright fky and warm air, form here an affemblage of objects exceedingly cheering and tranquillizing. On a mild fummer's evening, while I have been rowed along the fmooth waters of the Bay, and while I looked on the rocks and the coaft, and the fea all tinged with the rich and various hues of the fetting fun, I forgot for a time to envy the lot of the traveller who gazes on the fuperior glories of the Frith of Edinburgh, the Bay of Naples, or the Port of Conftantinople. Mr. URBAN, T.S. April 16. THE following is an an exact reprefentation of the LIFE-PRESERVER, in cafe of fubmerfion and fhipwreck, invented by Mr. Daniel of Wapping; and here copied from the valuable and fatisfactory Report made yeterday to the Royal Humane Society at their Anniverfary Meeting. and curtailed. After I had traverfed for fome time the brow of the fhore and the fand below, the weather at length brightened up a little, and a gleam of funfhine difplayed the whole of this fimple but beautiful fcene.. The pleasure was foon paft; for the rain came on again. I betook myfélf The Machine or Jacket (which will to an alcove in a garden, looking from go into a coat pocket) is compofed of the town upon the Bay, and fheltered water-proof leather, prepared to contain there; and, waiting for another gleam, air, and is inflated through a filver tube, I amufed myfelf in writing verfes, by the wearer, in half a minute; it (which the reader may fee p. 357.) The then fupports the head, arms, and body, place was quiet, and feemed almoft deferted it was too late in the feafon for any of the fummer faunterers, and the male part of the inhabitants were abfent on their annual excurfion to the Yarmouth Fishery. The wave * This place has been partly deferibed in vol. LXXV. p. 793. completely on the furface of the water. On the 26th of laft September, a great many people, aflembled on London Bridge and the River, to witness the trial of it. Several perfons, thus equipped, jumped into the Thames from Mr. Daniel's boat, which was moored off Old Swan Stairs, about 4 o'clock, and floated through the centre arch of London Bridge with perfect eafe and fafety. Some were obferved to be fmoaking their pipes, and others playing the flute and French-horn. They then proceeded, without the leaft accident, down the river, and landed at Gun-dock, oppofite to Mr. Daniel's refidence. |