session previous to the publication of What remains to be told is but the his- | half-boots; on his head an immense highthis volume, it would have been com- tory of ineffectual perseverance, and heart-crowned hat embroidered with gold, and prised in the following statement, which rending calamity. So early as the second surrounded by a kind of coronet of Eurohas been prepared for some time, and sad results began to manifest themselves. hung a long string of ivory beads, and a day after Captain Tuckey's departure, the pean artificial flowers; round his neck which, as it makes a whole with what On that day the anatomist was brought very large piece of manufactured coral. we have already written, we shall prefix back to the boats in a dangerous state. His Having seated himself on the right, a masto our analysis of the official narrative. illness soon terminated in death. Those ter of the ceremonies, with a long staff in We have, however, to say that an ad- who remained in the river had but two fre- his hand, inquired into the rank of the genmirable and feeling introduction from quently opportunities of hearing of their tlemen, and seated them accordingly. The the pen of the gentleman alluded to, companions from the sick who returned to doctors (Messrs. Smith and Tudor) having them in rapid succession. The Captain, the first places, and then Mr. Galwey, conveys a more detailed description of superior to fatigue, and undismayed by dan- whom they styled chief mate; the serjeant the mournful catastrophe of the voy-ger, went boldly forward till his little party of the marines they metamorphosed into a agers, rendered still more interesting became so seriously weakened, that he felt boatswain, taking all the titles of officers by biographical sketches of their lives it his duty to lose no time in retracing his from the trading vessels, to which only and preceding pursuits. steps to save the remnant of his followers. they had been accustomed! He had hoped to find means of prosecuting Áll being seated, (the crowd of king's the object of the expedition by water; but gentlemen squatting on bullocks' hides) I disappointed in this, surrounded by sus-explained to the Chenoo, by Simmons, the picious natives, in a country which offered motives of my mission, &c. no resources, no alternative remained, and They could not however, comprehend he reluctantly abandoned the design he had formed. The inhabitants of the counwhy a ship should come for any other try, who at the commencement of his jour-purpose, but to trade or to fight. In ney had seemed friendly, became hostile in the end, says Captain Tucker, the day of his distress. At one time a very considerable force was opposed to him: a crowd, or as they might call it, an army, was drawn up in battle-array against the adventurers. The numerical superiority was immense, but courage prevailed over numbers, and the British having discharged their fire-arms, but without destroying any of the undisciplined multitude who had put themselves in the situation of enemies, their king, on seeing Captain Tuckey and his little band about to advance to the charge in earnest, came forward to entreat that his people might not be killed. Though

many

of the natives were armed with mus

kets, and other European weapons, they
were not considered formidable by the
handful of men who had undertaken to
explore their country.

The keg of spliced rum which I had brought as a part of my present to the Chenoo, was now produced, together with an English white earthen-ware wash-hand bason covered with dirt; into which some of the liquor was poured, and distributed to the company; the king saying he drank only wine, and retiring, as he told me, to order dinner. The moment he disappeared the Company began to scramble for a sup of the rum; and one fellow, dropping his dirty cap in the bason, as if by accident, contrived to snatch it out again well soked, and sucked it with great satisfaction.

or banza, are mean and miserable enThe huts which compose the town closures of matted reeds, the price of one habitation being no more than equal to four fowls. In due time our countrymen were received to dinner by

As many of our friends seem to think our labours incomplete, while the result of the voyage to the Congo remains untold by us, though announced in various publications, we readily communicate such particulars as have been transmitted to us. These, though scanty, may be depended upon as far as they go, and the melancholy character which belongs to them, precludes us from much regretting that the statement must be short. While the vessels were enabled to proceed up the Congo, it has been seen that the casualties which occurred, were not calculated to excite much alarm, and nothing till they arrived at the rapids had taught them to despair of ultimate success. When it was found impossible to ascend farther, the enterprising Captain immediately made preparations for prosecuting the objects of the voyage by a journey on land. It was about the middle of August that they arrived at the foot of the cataracts, called by the natives Galleloo.* Here the river is about a mile broad, and very deep. The current rushes down the rocks which form the rapids, with a violence of agitation exceeding that of the waves of the ocean when convulsed with a hard gale of wind. The Congo and the transport had been left at anchor lower down the river, and now as the boats could be no longer used, Captain Tuckey left them in the care of an inferior officer, and taking with him twenty-five men, besides the gentlemen who formed the scientific part of the expedition-the whole being well armed, and carrying with them provisions for six weeks, commenced the difficult task of exploring the river by journeyAfter waiting half an hour under the ing on shore. The disembarkation took tree, we were led to the Chenoo's habitaplace on the 20th of August. A letter tion, where in a court formed by a fence of written by the Captain on that day to a reed mats, and which was crowded with the friend, and published in the Asiatic Journal king's gentlemen, I found a seat prepared for January 1817, displays the feelings by of three or four old chests, covered with a which he was animated, and shews that he red velvet pall, an old English carpet with had then been unable to gain any informa- another pall being spread on the ground. tion from the natives that could at all satisfy Having seated myself, in about five minutes his mind. It further appears that he was the Chenoo made his appearance from be- After dinner, Simmons, the interfully advertised of all the difficulties with hind a mat screen, his appearance convey-preter, having been previously exwhich he had to contend, and which ulti-ing the idea of punch in a puppet-show, amined, and sworn in secret by his mately caused the sacrifice of his valuable being composed of a crimson plush jacket sovereign, as to the real objects of the with enormous gilt buttons, a lower garment in the nature and style of red velvet, expedition, another palaver was held, his legs muffled in pink sarcenet in guise of at which an old man, a chief counsellor stockings, and a pair of red morocco and uncle of the king, was present,

life.

• The work denominates the highest point reached "Cooloo," and the cataracts "Yellala."

Having thus brought our own rela

tion to a conclusion, we proceed to
take up the particulars of the overland
journey, from the authorized Narrative,
and the journal kept by Professor
Smith. Captain Tuckey's first inter-
view with the Chenoo, or King of Em-
bomma, took place on the 27th of
July. He says,

the Chenoo, whose abode, little better,

those of his subjects, is sanctified by except in having one large room, than rude fetishes in every corner.

The

Repast was laid out in the grand apartment, where some chests covered with car

pets served for seats and tables. A few plates and mugs of earthenware, and some Venetian gilt glass, were placed on the table, together with a few silver spoons and forks, evidently of French workmanship. The meats consisted of a soup of plaintains and goat's flesh, a fowl cut in pieces and broiled, and roasted plantains in lieu of bread; a large silver tankard filled with sweet palin wine, and a bottle of the rum I had brought, were placed as our beverage.

kind.

After again tiring me (says the narrator) | for one half this valuation.' The fol- | &c. in this portion of the volume, and with questions as to my motives, the old lowing price of a prime slave, at this merely extract a few notices of matt ers man, starting up, plucked a leaf from a tree, and holding it to me, said, If you very date, which we have in our pos- of a less permanent and monotonous come to trade, swear by your God, and session, proves the accuracy of this break the leaf. On my refusing to do so, he supposition: then said, Swear by your God you do not come to make war, and break the leaf. On my doing which, the whole company performed a grand sakilla,* and the assembly broke up; the king retiring into an inner hut, where the present I had brought him was carried, (a piece of furniture cotton, some beads, a plated tankard and goblet, and a silk umbrella); for on my first telling him that I had brought him a present from the King of England, he begged it might not be produced until all his gentlemen

were dismissed.

While we were seated in the audience court, the king's women (of whom he had fifty) were peeping out of one of the squares; and before retiring, the king very politely offered me the choice of all his

Eleven pieces bafts, three pieces chintz, two pieces handerchiefs, three fathoms baize; three strings of beads, 5s. 2s. 6d. 2s. 9d; six knives, one looking glass, one cap, one umbrella, one mug, one plate, three fathoms bafts for guinea stuff, two half-pints gunpowder, two jars brandy, thirty pounds iron bar.

Such was the price, not for the misery of one human being alone, of one wretch torn from country, home, and social affections, to drag out a life of slavery, but the price of a whole continent's degradation, of that which filled Africa with anarchy and blood, and from its centre to its coasts, on every radius to which the compass pointed, made man the most vile and brutal of

..

daughters, while his courtiers as civilly prof-his species. Have we not cause to re-collection of the mammiferæ of Africa,

fered their wives.

The grossness of the terms in which these offers were made, were worthy of a race debased below humanity by the

slave trade.

joice that the death-blow has been given to this horrid traffic? Though the bad policy of some inferior states, and the avarice of a few pirates and smugglers, may prolong the evil for a On the 28th, the Chenoo returned the time, it will be but a short and partial visit, and amicably permitted the ex-struggle against a determination which pedition to proceed on their mission, throws the brighest lustre over the age only hoping that when they came down in which we live. the river again, they would build him an English house, leave him a boat, and give him a musket.

Nothing particular happened till the 1st of August, when Mr. Sherwood, an old slave trader out of Liverpool, and now the ostensible mate of a brig under Spanish colours, visited Captain Tuckey, accompanied by four Portuguese masters of trading vessels, then at Cabenda. Their object was to be assured that the slave trade was not the purpose of the new comers; and Captain T. is of opinion that the trade in the Congo river, amounting to about 2000 slaves annually, is chiefly bona fide Portuguese. The natives stated the price of a slave to be

Two muskets, two casks of gunpowder, two guineas (one fathom each,) twelve long indians (ten fathoms each,) two nicancas (six fathoms each,) one romaul (eight fathoms,) one fathom woollen cloth, one cortee or sash of cloth, two jars of brandy, 5 knives, 5 strings of beads, one rasor, one looking glass, one cap, one iron bar, one pair of scissors, one padlock. (p. 112.)

The captain, adds, I have no doubt however, but that slaves are now sold

The Sakilla is the ceremony of acknowledging any thing gratifying: one of the chiefs starts up, and makes the gestures like a fugleman with his arms, and all the company strike their chests at the end of every motion.

Captain T. took leave of the chenoo, and proceeded upwards, accompanied by three of his sons, two pilots, and a boat's crew of four boys, for Binda.

Berlin (we are told) abounds with literary and scientific men, who compose various societies, amongst which, the Academy of Sciences, the Friends of Natural History Society, and the Cabinet of Mines, are the most prominent. - - - At present, the study of natural history in all its branches, is that which is cultivated with the greatest assiduity at Berlin. -- Their transactions are contained in 18 volumes, comprising discoveries and notices upon every branch of natural history, chemistry, minebers belonging to this society are Humralogy, and medicine. Amongst the memboldt, Bode, Klaproth, Willdenow, Karsten, De Hermstaedt, De Fleurke, De Laspeyres, De Klug, De Gronau, De Reich, &c. &c. This Society also possesses an excellent library, and a choice cabinet of specimens in natural history, comprehending a rare insects of Surinam, turtles and tortoiseshells, and anatomical preparations, &c. and a fine herbarium of the plants of India and the Cape of Good Hope; besides a most precious collection of minerals, consisting of 12,000 specimens brought from the mines and mountains of Transylvania, France, Switzerland, Italy, England, ScotHungary, Silesia, Carinthia, Carniola, land, Ireland, and South America. Among other curious specimens, is a piece of yellow amber, weighing thirteen pounds and a half, found by a peasant at Strahopen, a village near Jurterberg. The present king presented the fortunate finder with 1000 rix-dollars. There is also a morsel of native platina, weighing 1088 grains, and a large piece of fiery opal, brought from South America by Humboldt.

From Berlin Dr. N. went to Dresden, the population of which, he states, amounted, according to a census in 1755, to 63,209 individuals; but in 1772 it had decreased to 45,000, and has never since exceeded 58 000 Dresden is almost the only capital in Europe where such decrease has taken place. The mortality in 1805 was 1800, or 1 in 32, and the marriages only 400 annually; while every year the number of still-born and illegitimate children was increasing.

At Dresden the writer associated

himself with the gallant Sir R. Rollo (then Colonel) Gillespie, who was proceeding overland towards India, and It is twelve years since this tour was they agreed to travel together to Conperformed. Dr. Neale passed to Heli- stantinople. Their first stage in Bohegoland, and thence proceeded to Ham-mia was Peterswalden, and next morn burgh. From Hamburgh the traveller pursued his route to Berlin. We dismiss the accounts of posting, and the description of the country, buildings,

ing they reached Toeplitz, with its 77 thermal springs, of the waters of which the annexed is the analysis of Jahn, a Saxon chemist.

Carbonic acid gas
Sulphurated hydrogen
Carbonate of lime

Iron

Muriate of lime
Silica

from 225,400 grains of water.

Cubic Inches.ported by a population of 230,000 in- |

132.5

28.5

16.5

3.25

61.3
15.4

habitants.

Since 1768 the population of Vienna
has been continually increasing, in con-
sequence of the great influx of Dutch,
Polish, Italian, Swiss, and German emi-
grants. The mortality was about 1 in 15
annually; double what it is in London.
Among the curiosities in the various
public places at Vienna, particularized
by Dr. N. are four enormous pieces of

Turkish Cannon in the Arsenal :-
:-

One of these, bearing date 1516, was
taken at Belgrade in 1717; it weighs
one hundred and seventy-nine quintals,
and can throw a ball one hundred and
twenty-four pounds weight; another,
founded in 1560, weighs one hundred and
seventeen quintals, and will throw a ball of
sixty pounds weight. Near these are two
ball of four hundred weight and upwards,
stone pieces, one of which throws a stone
and the other one of two hundred and fifty
pounds weight.

Encircling the external wall, is a prodigious chain 1200 feet in length, each link weighing twenty-four pounds. This is Turks had thrown across the Danube, near merely a fragment of a chain which the Buda, in Hungary, to keep off the Austrian gun-boats. Amongst the remains of anfrey of Bouillon, and the buff leather waistcient armour, is the red velvet cap of Godden, pierced on the left side with the muscoat of Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweket ball which terminated his existence at the battle of Lutzen, in Saxony, in 1632.

In a glass-case in the Arsenal is still shown the grim visage of Cara Mustapha, Grand Vizier, and commander of the Turkish army at the last siege of Vienna, by the Turks, in 1683. He had entered the Austrian States, as the voluntary leader of more than 300,000 men, commanded by

politics, which he has introduced in a work of so opposite a naturè: the extract is of a curious kind, and, though it occurs near the end of the volume, we anticipate it here.

Consumptions are not unfrequent (in Turkey) and generally they are as fatal as elsewhere; although the Turks have a very popular remedy, which in some instances I have observed to be beneficial, namely, a few grains of pitch, made into pills, and administered several times a day. A similar mode of cure has, I understand, been long employed by the Scottish peasantry. The decoction of the sprouts of the young pine has been strongly recommended by the late Dr. Posterfield, of Eden, who is said to have been very successful in the exhi bition of this simple medicine. Oriental nations have at all times put great faith in the juices of terebinthinate and balsamic shrubs.

These simple remedies for so fatal a disorder, surely deserve serious consideration and experiment.

A GERMAN TOURIST.

An amusing book has lately been published in Germany, under the title of "A Journey to London and Paris, formed before the French Revolution, by M. Bretschneider." It was peror at the very commencement of it. The author has been dead some years, and the work is now published from his MSS by M. von Göckingk. We quote a few anecdotes, from which the credibility of the writer, and the credulity of the editor, may, in many instances, be appreciated. The former seems to be the Sir John Carr of Ger

The literary establishments in this city are upon the same grand scale as the charitable foundations. Adjoining to the gallery leading to the church of the Augustines, is the Imperial library, contained in a fine building by a German architect named Fischer, of Erlach. It has two entrances, one reserved for the court, communicating with the palace, the other opening upon the Joseph-platz, where is situated the colossal equestrian statue before alluded to (of the Emperor Joseph.) This library is thrown open to the public every day, five petty sovereign princes, and thirty-man tourists. Sundays and holidays only excepted; in the summer-time, from eight in the morning, amounted to 300 pieces of cannon. one pashas, and his train of artillery His and in the winter one hour later. Except-plan was nothing less than to have coning the Vatican library, it is allowed to be quered Vienna, and then subjugated the the first collection in Europe. The West of Europe. Emperor Maximilian the First, had the honour of commencing this establishment, in 1498. it now amounts to above 300,000 volumes. One hall alone is filled with early books (is filled with early books alone?) printed between the years 1457 and

1500.

He was however foiled by John Sobieski, and strangled by order of his master Mahomet IV. After his burial he was disinterred, and his ambitious head sent in pickle, as a trophy, to the burghers of Vienna.

The Academy of Arts is also deWe have now accompanied the trascribed. At the period of Dr. Neale's vellers to that point, where the relation visit, there belonged to it, thirty-five assumes a rather more interesting form, historical, fifteen landscape, eight viz. throughout the journey from Vienna animal, four flower, thirty-one portrait, to Constantinople. We shall therefore and fourteen miniature painters; be- take this opportunity to divide our sides ten painters of heraldry, twenty Review into two parts, adding only sculptors, fifteen architects, twelve en- one observation, and one short extract gravers of medals, four engravers in to what we have already written as ivory, ten seal-engravers, six modellers the first. The observation is one of in wax, and twenty-six engravers of regret, that Dr. Neale should have copper-plates. These artists are sup-mixed even the slight touches of party

"In London, Bretschneider once dined at the Cannon Tavern, where eight different dishes were given for one shilling. He met with two poor Italians in tie-wigs, who came only every other day, and for their shilling ate enough to serve them for two days. He saw the same thing in Coblentz, in 1791, where many of the principal emigrants dined only every other day at the Three Crowns, but then eat enormously.

"Once he was walking with a friend in the streets of London, when they saw a beggar sitting before a housedoor, who had spread out a table for his dinner in the open air. Upon a clean table-cloth stood roast veal, cauliflower, pudding, and a pot of porter. A well-dressed boy waited on the beggar, and Bretschneider's friend gave him a shilling. Bretschneider expressed his surprise; but his friend answered

"I give it to this man because he is not a hypocrite: he has but one foot, therefore he deserves alms; if that brings him in so much that he can live comfortably, so much the better." (The name of this worthy Englishman was Fish.)

KOTZEBUE'S VOYAGE.

me as I am, and censes to hate me. If houses of the most distinguished inha-
I say this out of pride, I owe it to ex-bitants, whom we visited after dinner.
perience."
There was a ball in the evening, which
may be well compared with our Euro-
pean balls; the ladies were much the
larger number, and most of them very
handsome. We could, indeed, for the
most part, only converse by signs; but
they seemed to understand us, and to be
pleased with us. They promised that we
should have a ball every evening, if we
would remain some time in town; but this
would not do, my chronometers would not
allow it. As for the visit of ceremony on
the 25th, I went there with a numerous
company; for, besides our whole ship's
crew, the Governor of Talcagnano and three
officers went with us.

The accounts of the first part of Otto von Kotzebue's Voyage, namely, that round Cape Horn to Chili, which has hitherto been delayed, has at last been received by his father by way of Spain. The following

"Bretschneider became acquainted with a Jew named Fränkel, who being once at Prague, had much money, and a great quantity of jewels with him. Another common Jew wanted to robare extracts. him; and while Fränkel accompanied somebody to the head of the stairs, he slipped in, and hid himself in a wardrobe, to watch till Fränkel went out. By chance another rich Jew from Frankfort called on Fränkel, and reIated to him a droll story, in which he mimicked the voices of several well known Jews in so comical a manner, that the thief in the cupboard could not refrain from laughing aloud, and by this means was discovered.

"We had tempestuous weather for six days together, and suffered much. On the 11th of January the storm was dreadful, and the waves tremendously high. A great wave broke over us, and did much damage. I was upon deck at this moment, just where the wave broke in, which threw me and a sailor overboard. Luckily it also carried a coil of rope over, the end of which was fastened to the ship, and by which we saved ourselves. My escape was miraculous, for as the wave threw me into the sea, I was bruised, and seemed to have lost all my senses. On this occasion, a couple of chicken-coops, with forty fowls, were also washed overboard; a matter of some moment on so long a voyage.

Our course from Brazil round Cape Horn was, however, made with a rapidity of which there are only a few instances. After we had doubled Cape Horn, we had indeed to struggle for a whole week against violent storms; but thank God sustained no damage.

As we came near

the town, eight guns, which stood on the parade, were fired. The Governor received us in full uniform. The most distinguished persons of the town, and among them the Bishop, were present at the entertainment. The whole was conducted with much solemnity. The cannons thundered without ceasing. The health of Alexander the First, and of Ferdinand the Seventh, were drank more than once. Alexander is here looked upon as the deliverer of Europe. In the evening the Governor gave a ball, to which all the principal people were invited. I think to leave Conception on the 6th of March. From this place I date the beginning of my voyage.

The same conveyance has brought letters from M. Chamisso, in which is the following passage: "Under the 41st degree we found a cold of 120 heat of Reaumur, very

disagreeable; we put on woollen clothes, and lighted a fire. Off the justly feared Cape Horn, are found the largest waves

we have ever seen."

"At Paris there were at that time at court twelve Swiss belonging to the Royal Chapel, who had nothing else to do but to keep order during mass. Some golden tassels were once stolen from the cushions in the king's pew, for which reason, the Duke of Noailles, under whose command the Swiss were, called them all together, and declared to On the 13th of February (1816) we cast them, through an interpreter, that one anchor in Conception Bay, near the village of them must have done it. Bret- of Talcagnano. We immediately received schneider stood by the chimney, and a visit from the Governor of the fortress, heard the Swiss whisper together, What who did not know our flag, and seemed is stolen?' And when they at last under- quite astonished to hear that we were stood what the matter was, they surRussians. After he had read my passport, rounded the Dake, murmuring, and which was signed by the Spanish minister said that the Swiss never steal gold or in London, he loaded us with politeness. silver; "if it had been wine indeed!" the town of Conception, which is only one A messenger was immediately sent off to said one of them, with great simplicity.league and a half distant, to acquaint the "In 1804, Bretschneider wrote a book Governor of our arrival. He visited me on against Buonaparte, which he called the 15th with some ladies, who had never "Theodore." M. Degen, a great book-before seen any Russians, and were curious seller at Vienna, had received 500 to see us. The best house in Talcagnano We are sure our readers will be gracopies of this work; but the French The Governor wished to receive me and rative of an Embassy which has been was given me to regulate my chronometers. tified with the following unaffected narainbassador remonstrated, and de- my companions on the 25th with certain manded that Degen should be obliged to formalities, but begged that we would visit the subject of much observation to return these 500 copies to the original him before as friends. We rode to his Europe, and of which we have the publisher. The Ambassador was re- house on horseback, as there are no car-pleasure to lay before them the first quested to consider, whether, by send-riages here; and even the ladies perform account made public, being the

*For the sequel, as far as accounts have been received, the Literary Gazettes, Nos. 26, 27, 28, and 29, may be consulted.

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

RUSSIAN EMBASSY TO PERSIA.

ing the book back, it would not become their little journeys without ceremony Extract of a Letter from Captain Moritz

still more generally known: upon which he himself bought these 500 copies for

1500 francs.

that they sometimes rode in small carts
generally in this way. I afterwards found
drawn by oxen.

On the route to the town, we found The following expression of Bret- the country extremely well cultivated, and schneider's is characteristic. "Give me that the people, in spite of their laziness, a man who is my worst enemy; let reap a hundred-fold. All the southern him be even a little malicious, pro-ance. The wine is, to my taste, very good. European fruits grow here wild in abundvided he has a good head; understand. ing soon amalgamates, and a true judge of the human heart soon finds

We alighted in the town at the Governor's
house, and were received in the most
friendly manner; as we were also in the

von Kotzebue, in the Imperial Russian General's Staff (attached to the Russian Embassy in Persia) to his Father, dated from Sultanie, (the summer residence of the Schach of Persia) the 14th of August, 1817.

beautiful, is, as far as we know it, a dreary Persia, which we had imagined to be so desert, iuhabited by famished and unhappy people. The best description of Persia is that given by Chardin, about one hundred