Dellon was, by birth, a Frenchman: he travelled into India, where (at Damaun, a Portuguese colony) he settled for a time. With the usual libertinage of his nation, and heedless gaieté de cœur, in matters of gallantry, he made himself enemies; his danger was converted into distress, by his garrulity and speculative discussions:-insomuch, that his real meaning, or his no-meaning, afforded evidence sufficiently presumptive against him to enable his enemies to accuse him of heresy. Such an accusation at Goa was equivalent to a long imprisonment, to repeated examinations, to tortures of different degrees of severity, to condemnation, and to the horrors of an auto da fé, or public execution by burning. It appears that when first committed to prison at Damaun, he was not deprived of all intercourse with friends. He received supplies, without interruption, from a benevolent lady. He had previously accused himself to the commissary, and professed contrition for his crimes, in hopes of avoiding the consequences; he received admonition, and considered himself as absolved. Being removed to Goa, he does not charge the holy office with neglecting its prisoners, by starving them, or otherwise misusing them. IIe details the particulars of his repeated examinations; the extremes to which he was reduced by his sufferings, and his attempts against his own life. He reports the extreme ignorance of his judges, not only in respect to the doctrines of the bible, but to those promulgated by the council of Trent. He states his condemnation to the flames; with the commutation of his sentence to death for that of a long destination to the galleys. The performance of the auto da fé, with its sanguinary rites, is described; not omitting four chests of bones of deceased persons, who had been tried after their decease, and condemned to the flames, in order that the holy office might seize their property. At length, this sufferer was sent to Europe;-he worked some time as a galleyslave at Lisbon; but was released before the full period of his sentence expired, and returned to France by the very first vessel that left the port for that country. To this history are added others of his fellow prisoners; and in an Appendix is given an account of the escape of Mr. Archibald Bower-(who wrote the history of the popes)-he was an inquisitor at Macerata, in Italy, as narrated by himself to a lady, from a copy of whose minutes the translation was made; but the editor observes, in his preface, "To pretend to vouch for the veracity of the relation would be too perilous an undertaking, in defiance of the generally received opinion of the narrator's character." This honest confession mars an interesting tale.

From this abridged sketch of the contents of the volume our readers will judge on its interest; they will assuredly congratulate the world on every blow struck at the holy inquisition.

They will do more:-they will perceive the horrid consequences of attempting to domineer over conscience; of committing civil power to sacerdotal hands; of establishing secret tribunals at which no witnesses appear, nor is any mode of confrontation of the accuser and the accused allowed. The silence of the inquisition, the oaths of secrecy administered to all who quit the prisons of the office, are striking proofs of conscious tyranny.

KING TAMAHAMA.

[From Turnbull's Voyage round the World.]

Soon after our arrival at Owhyhee, we received a visit from our countryman, Mr. Young, who had resided there for fourteen years past; from whom we had a confirmation of particulars respecting Tamahama, communicated to us at Whahoo, and of his erecting a royal residence at Mowie, and, above all, of his fixed determination to attempt the conquest of the two other islands of Attowahie and Onehow.

His palace is built, after the European style, of brick, and glazed windows, and defended by a battery of ten guns. He has European and American artificers about him of almost every description. Indeed his own subjects, from their intercourse with Europeans, have acquired a great knowledge of several of the mechanical arts, and have thus enabled him to increase his navy, a very favourite object with him. I have no doubt that in a very few years he will erect amongst these islands a power very far from despicable.

The circumstances of this enterprising chief were greatly changed since the visit of Captain Vancouvre, to whom, as to the servant and representative of the King of Great Britain, with much formality and ceremony, he had made a conveyance, of the sovereignty of Owhyhee, in the hopes of being thus more strongly confirmed in his authority, and supplied with the means of resisting his enemies.

His dominion seems now to be completely established. He is not only a great warrior and politician, but a very acute trader, and a match for any European in driving a bargain. He is well acquainted with the different weights and measures, and the value which all articles ought to bear in exchange with each other; and is ever ready to take advantage of the necessities of those who apply to him or his people for supplies.

His subjects have already made considerable progress in civilization; but are held in the most abject submission, as Tamahama

is inflexible in punishing all offences which seem to counteract his supreme command.

It was only in 1794 that Captain Vancouvre laid down the keel of Tamahama's first vessel, or rather craft; but so assiduously has he applied himself to effect his grand and favourite object, the establishment of a naval force, that at the period of our arrival he had upwards of twenty vessels of different sizes, from twenty-five to seventy tons: some of them were even copper bottomed.

He was, however, at this time much in want of naval stores; and, to have his navy quickly placed on a respectable footing, would pay well for them. He has also between two and three hundred body-guards to attend him, independently of the number of chiefs who are required to accompany him on all his journeys and expeditions.

In viewing this man, my imagination suggested to me, that I beheld, in its first progress, one of those extraordinary natures which, under other circumstances of fortune and situation, would have ripened into the future hero, and caused the world to resound with his feats of glory. What other was Philip of Macedon, as pictured by the Grecian historians!—a man who overcame every disadvantage of slight resources and powerful rivals, and extended the narrow sovereignty of Macedon into the universal monarchy of Greece and the known world.

Tamahama's ardent desire to obtain a ship from Captain Vancouvre was, in all probability, first excited by the suggestions of Young and his countryman Davis; but such was the effect of this undertaking, that Tamahama became immediately more sparing of his visits on board the Discovery, his time being now chiefly employed in attending to the carpenters at work on this new man of war, which, when finished, was named the Britannia. This was the beginning of Tamahama's navy; and, from his own observations, with the assistance of Messrs. Young, Davis, &c. he has laboured inflexibly in improving his marine force, which he has now brought to a respectable state; securing to him not only a decided superiority over the frail canoes of his neighbours, but the means of transporting his warriors to distant parts. Some of his vessels are employed as transports in carrying provisions from one island to another, to supply his warriors; whilst the largest are used as men of war, and are occasionally mounted with a few light guns. No one better understands his interest than this ambitious chief; no one better knows how to improve an original idea. The favours of Vancouvre, and his other European benefactors, would have been thrown away on any other savage; but Tamahama possesses a genius above his situation.

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regularly disciplined troops, go on duty not unfrequently with the drum and fife, and relieve each other as in Europe, calling out "all is well," at every half hour, as on board of ship. Their uniform at this time was simply a blue great coat with yellow facings,

FOREIGN TRADE OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.

(From the same.)

THE Sandwich Islanders, in the territories of Tamahama, frèquently make voyages to the northwest coast of America, and thereby acquire sufficient property to make themselves easy and comfortable, as well as respectable, among their countrymen; to whom, on their return home, they are fond of describing, with great emphasis and extravagance, the singular events of their voyage. Several of them have made considerable progress in the English language; their intercourse with the Anglo-Americans, and the navigators from Britain, having given them the opportunity, of which they have so eagerly availed themselves.

Such is the astonishing assiduity of these people, and such their eagerness to improve their condition, by imitating the callings of the Europeans, that it is not unusual to see some of them exercising the trade of a country blacksmith, having for an anvil a pig of iron kentlage, obtained from some ship; a pair of goatskin bellows, made by himself or some of his countrymen; and his charcoal fire; making articles suited to the wants of his countrymen, or repairing and mending such as stand in need of it, with an ingenuity surpassing what might be expected under such cir

cumstances.

The canoes of the Sandwich Islands far surpassed any that we had seen in other parts of the world; not only in solidity and strength, but in the neatness and skill of workmanship. These canoes are so well calculated for speed, that we have seen the natives work them along, with their short paddles, at the rate of eleven or twelve miles an hour, and fairly run them under water.

They are already well acquainted with the trade on the northwest coast of America; and from thence they may draw many articles to make up a cargo for their own country, or the neighbouring islands to the westward.

It may naturally be asked what articles of commerce or barter can be possessed by the Sandwich Islanders, a people just sprung from nature? The answer is at hand; they are able to furnish fire-arms, gunpowder, hardware, and cloth of different sorts; of all which Tamahama has accumulated more than is required for their own consumption.

These have been acquired in exchange for labour and refresh

ment supplied to the shipping who have touched there; particu larly such as are engaged in the trade to the northwest parts of America. When the cargoes of these last are completed, they readily part with such articles as remain, at a very low rate, rather than be encumbered with them during the remainder of their voyage. Besides the above-mentioned articles of foreign introduction, the Sandwich Islan:lers possess the sandal wood, pearl oyster shell, and some pearls, all articles of high value in the China market; but one difficulty still remains to their accomplishment of this object, which is the want of hands to navigate their ships on voyages of such length and intricacy. Fortunately, however, for these enterprising people, they have now resident among them several Europeans and Anglo-Americans, men of ability and knowledge; such as Mr. Young, Mr. Davis, Capt. Stewart, &c. &c. For twelve or fourteen years before our visit, these gentlemen had employed themselves successfully in instructing the natives, and their extraordinary chief Tamahama, in many useful arts, and particularly in that of navigation from island to island; so that many of the inhabitants have thus become brave, hardy, and not inexperienced sailors.

ACCOUNT OF C. M. WIELAND.

To no writer of the age, perhaps, are the literature, the language, and the public taste of the Germans under such great obligations as to Wieland, whose talents have for half a century been the boast and admiration of the country which gave him birth. Few authors of any nation have written so much; but what constitutes a far more honourable distinction, still fewer have written so well. Possessing uncommon versatility of genius, Wieland was equally eminent as a poet and a prose writer, as a moralist and a philosopher, as a translator and an author of the most brilliant originality and invention. The spirited and elegant translation of his Oberon, by Mr. Sotheby, has afforded the English reader a favourable specimen of Wieland's poetical powers; but it is impossible that his merits can be fairly appreciated in this country, where so few of his numerous works have yet found their way before the public.

Wieland died, in bis 30th year, in January, 1813, and was interred on the 25th of the same month in the garden belonging to his late mansion at Osmannstädt, six miles from Weimar, now the property of M. Kühne, by the side of his beloved wife and his young friend, Sophie Brentano. Here, supremely happy in the bosom of his family, Wieland had passed several years, from 1798 to 1803, in