the virulence of faction, that an attack of a to the spirit of those times, cited into the most unhandsome kind was made upon his Court of Chivalry, Thomas de Caterton, memory in Parliament, respecting the ba- an Esquire, who having been Governor of lances which remained unsettled at the time that castle, had given it up in a treacherous of his death. This, however, was set aside manner to the French. Catertou, at first, in a plain simple statement, by his third attempted to evade this citation, by several son, the Hon. Augustus Cavendish Brad- frivolous excuses, but John of Gaunt, Duke shaw, then in Parliament; who with a of Lancaster, having sworn that if he did true filia! warmth vindicated the conduct not behave himself manfully according to of his deceased parent, and shewed that the law of arms, he should be drawn to the although his death had necessarily left gallows as a traitor, he was at length comsome accounts unsettled, not a far-pelled to enter the lists. The combat took thing would be lost to the nation. Sir place in the Palace-yard at Westminster, Henry married Sarah, only child and heir-before the King and all his Court, and ess of Richard Bradshaw, Esq. lineally de-notwithstanding (as has been recorded by scended from the Lord President Bradshaw an ancient historian), Caterton was a man in the time of the usurpation; by which || of prodigious valour, of a large stature, connection a considerable fortune came into and far overtopped the Knight, yet the family, and the name of Bradshaw was chance or courage soon decided the conadopted by Augustus, the third son of the test; the Knight conquered, and Caterton marriage. either died of his wounds on the following day, or as some old Chronicles say, was drawn to Tyburn, and there hanged for treason. The present Lady Mountnorris was the third daughter of a numerous family, a family which has been enrolled in the class of nobility since the year 1792, at which time their mother, Lady Cavendish, was elevated to the rank of an Irish Peeress, by the title of Baroness Waterpark, a dignity now enjoyed by her eldest son. This Lady is the second wife of a Peer who is a Viscount of Ireland by desceut, an Earl by creation, and what is more remarkable, a claimant by descent of an English, Earldom, exactly upon the same evidence by which he holds his Irish Viscounty. As this case is of an extraordinary nature, and has some affinity to the late Berkeley case, we shall notice it after a slight sketch of the origin of the family. Robert Annesley, a younger branch of the family, settled at Newport Pagnel, in Bucks, in the sixteenth century; and his eldest son Francis was principal Secretary of State for Ireland in the reign of James I. and not only created a Baronet of that kingdom, but also called to the House of Peers by the title of Viscount Valeutia. It is beyond our plan to give a detailed genealogy of the descent; we shall therefore pass over the intermediate generations (premising that the first Peer was also created Earl of Anglesey in England), until we come to Richard, the late, and last acknowledged, Earl of Anglesey, who becoming Lord Altham on the death of his brother in 1727, The Earl of Mountuorris derives his fa- and teu years afterwards, on the death of mily desiguation of Anuesley, from a town his cousin Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, and of the same name in Nottinghamshire, || Viscount Valentia, &c. His first wife, where his earliest ancestor upon record, from whom he had been separated several Richard de Annesley, one of the Norman years, having died without leaving issue, chiefs, was seated in the year 1079. From he married Miss Juliana Donovan, a young him was descended Sir John Annesley, lady of an ancient and respectable Irish faKnight, who in the reign of Richard II. ||mily, then about seventeen years of age, was representative for his native county;|| said to have been highly accomplished, and having married Margaret, sister and || and exquisitely beautiful. Of this marco-heiress of Sir John Chandos, Knight, and Baron of St. Saviour, in Normandy, he became interested in that barony in consequence of his marriage; and according riage came one son, the present Lord Mountnorris, and three daughters; but it seems that some doubt was raised of its legality, founded on circumstances connected with its alledged celebration by the Rev. Mr. Neil, his Lordship's Chaplain, at his seat of Carolin Park. cates. A very small majority, however, set aside the claim, when a revision took place in the Irish House, where the same | female witness so completely contradicted herself as to annul her evidence, and the Irish honours were again adjudged to the claimant; but the decision on the English claim has since that period been suffered to remain at rest. His Lordship, who is now a Privy Councillor, Senior Governor of the county of Wexford, Premier Baronet of Ireland, and was created Earl of Mountnorris in 1793, first married a daughter of Lord Lyttleton, by whom he has several children, the eldest of whom, George, now Viscount Valentia, has distinguished himself by his Abyssinian Travels, and has lately returned from a Tour to the Grecian Islands, from which the learned and elegant world expect much information and amusement. His Lordship afterwards espoused the present Lady Mountnorris, in 1783, an union which has been productive of much happiness, and from which has sprung an amiable fa That the claimant, John Annesley, Esq. had some doubts, at least, in his own mind, respecting his specific right, appears from the almost romantic circumstances connected with the banishment and attempted concealment of the legal heir; however he boldly presented a petition to the Irish Government, claiming the titles of that realm, whilst the minor's rights were asserted by his mother, the Countess Dowager. The proper law officers in Ireland to whom it was referred, reported that the marriage was proved, and the heir coming of age in the same year, took his seat in the Irish House of Peers; but having immediately afterwards petitioned for his writ of summons to the English House, as Earl of Anglesey, the petition was referred to the Attorney-General, who reported in its favour. The petition was then referred to the House of Lords, to ascertain precisely the authenticity of the certificate written at the time of marriage by the clergy-mily. man, and also of the attesting witnesess. Throughout the whole of this examination, not a doubt could be supported on any point, except a suspicion of forgery respecting the signature of one Kavanagh, in consequence of the evidence of a female witness, and that of a nature which drew severe animadversions from some of the Peers; her evidence, indeed, was so little attended to, that the only debateable point was some apparent difference between that signature and other writings and subscriptions of that person. On this occasion the venerable Lord Mansfield distinguished himself much, contending that where there was clear and consistent parole evidence of a certain fact having taken place, it was contrary to common sense to consider the mere suspicion of forgery in any particular point as sufficient to overturn the direct and positive oaths of other actual witnesses of the marriage, and even of the reality of the certificate. No man, indeed, we believe, has ever been known to make his signatures fac-similes of each other through a course of twenty years, parti-sable in a tri-union with argent and or, cularly a man almost illiterate, or at least signified constancy and honour. not in the habit of signing formal certifi To avoid the accusation of flattery we must, however, contract the effusions of our pen, nor shall we risk the censure of modest worth by obtruding its virtues on the garish eye of public curiosity; in closing our task, however, with the symbolical delineation of her Ladyship's paternal armorial bearings, we will leave it for those who know her best to appreciate the coincidence of modern virtue with ancient blazon. The arms of Cavendish, the family name of the Waterpark title are, sable, three harts' heads caboshed, argent, attired or. By a reference to some of our preceding Numbers, our readers will observe that sable represents wisdom and prudence, and that those who bore it were obliged to support, or at least to assist the widow and the fatherless; argent was the characteristic symbol of humility, purity, innocence, and truth; whilst or represented opulence, splendour, and rec. titude of heart. Sable coupled with argent was most fair, with or, most rich; whilst ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. ORIGINAL JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE COAST OF AFRICA IN 1805, IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP SUCCESS. BY J. STRANG, SURGEON. THE following journal contains a rela- || blown hard, and from being prevented tion of events that occurred in a voyage that has been so frequently described as net to admit of the discovery of a new people or a new country: it lays claim, however, to originality on the score that it is the first journal of the proceedings of a ship of war on the coast of Africa; and though kept for the mere purpose of private amusement, it is hoped it may give some idea of the events that generally occur on such a service. His Majesty's frigate Success, was commissioned at Portsmouth by Captain G. Scott, about the latter end of the summer 1804; and after being completely equipped, was ordered to victual at Spithead for foreign service. from carrying much sail by the convoy, the ship rolls very much. This has produced violent sea-sickness in many of the crew, who as yet have not got used to the motion. There are few feelings more distressing than those that accompany this marine malady. The person at first expe. riences some unpleasant sensations in his head, increasing gradually to vertigo; the most violent nausea and sickness at stomach follow, which is seldom relieved by vomiting. The utmost disrelish for food and drink takes place; the patient becomes indifferent to every thing around him, even life itself ceases to be an object of concern to him. When the complaint does not assume this violent form, the motion frequently produces a most distressing headache, with much confusion of thought, accompanied with a certain derangement of the stomach, not so severe as to excite vo On the 25th of October we got under weigh, and ran through the Needles. The eloquence of poets and philosophers has been often displayed in the description of those feelings we experience on our bid-miting but to destroy appetite. In these ding adieu to our native land. We naturally associate with our homes all the pleasures and enjoyments we receive there; the scenes of our infancy, the days of our youth, are recalled in many a fond retrospection; the very spots we grew familiar with in the days of youth become endearing to us, and in our old age we love to ramble || amongst the haunts that had witnessed the happiness of former years: Ah happy hills! ah pleasing shades! Ah fields, belov'd in vain! 1 feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As sporting blythe on gladsome wing, My weary soul ye seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring! But our regard at parting with those endearments is increased by the prospect of the future, and by the difference of past enjoyment with present expectations. Nov. 27. The wind has come round a little to the southward of east, it has mild instances the complaint is soon got the better of by clearing the stomach when it is foul, or by remaining on deck in the fresh air. There are some seafaring men, however, who never entirely get the better of this confusion of the head, and certain unpleasant feelings that they cannot describe; even some who have spent most of their days at sea have the complaint in its most violent form during every severe gale. It has been disputed whether this distemper has ever proved mortal; but a complaint which produces such distress, and deprives the body for a long time of all nourishment, may easily be imagined to have sometimes terminated fatally. And indeed there are instances on record where this was undoubtedly the case, and where the patient, after being reduced to extreme debility, has died of exhaustion. A slow hectic fever intervenes, the stomach rejects every thing that is swallowed, violent hiccup takes place accompanied with cruizing off the Cape to intercept some Spanish ships she had got information of. On the 7th a Southsea whaler that had parted from the Mediterranean convoy joined us. The Speedy, one of the African ships, spoke us, and informed us that a party of her crew had attempted to break || open the forehold; the men were ordered on board the Success. great thirst and obtuse head-ache, and in this state the patient dies. It most frequently happens, however, that in time a habit is acquired by which the constitution secures itself from the effects of motion. It is singular to observe the different periods at which different constitutions acquire this habit; some never feel any sickness whatever. I was a miserable victim to it myself for six weeks, nor did this At this time the air was mild and warm, long probation always secure me from it very different from what we had so lately afterwards. Many who have been brought experienced in England, nor possessing up to the sea continue to be affected with that astringency which characterizes our it all their lives; I knew a singular in northern atmosphere. The water in the stance of a young Midshipman, who had casks had already begun to acquire a bad never been at sea before, remaining free smell, not unlike that of rotten eggs. This from sickness when the Captain, who was is owing partly to the putrefaction of the an old officer, and many of the seamen of animal and vegetable matter in the water, the ship, were violently affected. Dr. and partly to the decomposition of the fluid Darwin, in his Zoonomia, explains in a itself, by which the oxygen combines with very philosophical manner the cause of seathe carbon of the cask, and forms carbonic sickness. He says that in learning to walk acid gas, while its other constituent prinwe measure the distance of objects near us ciple, hydrogen, flies off and causes the bad by the eye, and by ascertaining the relationsmell. The offensive smell of bilge water of their position to us, determine our own perpendicularity. This is aptly illustrated by the vertigo produced by looking down a precipice, by riding in a coach with our back to the horses, and by sailing in a ship. In these situations the usual position of the surrounding objects is changed, and we can no longer judge of our own perpendi- || cular posture. A person who walks on a tight rope always fixes his eye on some particular object, and by its position determines his own; if the situation of the object is suddenly altered, or if any thing intervenes to prevent him seeing it, he is in great danger of falling from his being no longer able to determine his perpendicularity. Upon the same principle a person hood-winked is very apt to grow giddy and fall, but a stick in his hand will prevent this accident, by enabling him to determine his position with respect to the objects around him. Is it not for this reason that short-sighted people are the greatest sufferers from sea-sickness, whereas young infants are never affected with it? Dec. 1. Made the land about Cape Finestere this morning. The weather was mild and genial, and very unlike the chilly and cold season we had just escaped. Spoke the Diamond frigate, who was is explained on the same principle, and from this the hydrogen gas is evolved some→ times in such quantities as to diffuse itself all over the ship, and alter the colour of the paint in the officers' cabins. As from its volatility it easily flies off when the water is exposed to the air, it is usual to let the cask remain open for some time previous to the water being used; boiling answers the same purpose. The method I found to answer best was to pour the water from one vessel into another for some time; during this process, in which a great surface was exposed, the hydrogen gas flew off and left the water sweet. It would certainly be a desirable object to discover some method by which water might be kept fresh and sweet for any time. The water of the Thames has long been renowned for this quality, and is therefore preferred for long voyages; it begins very soon to grow thick and black, with a most offensive smell, but in a few days lets fall a thick sediment, and after this depuration continues clear and sweet. This quality probably depends upon the alkaline matters that must be poured into it from so great a city as London, and the impregna. ion of lime which it receives from the long track of chalky soil through which it runs, 176 A common practice at sea is to mix quicklime with the water, which has the effect of destroying all animalcula, and in some measure neutralizing the principle of putrefaction. Dec. 12. After continuing to steer to the S. W. for the last four days, at four P. M. land was seen from the mast-head on the larboard bow, and was soon afterwards visible from the deck, distant about seven leagues. Next morning we were close in with the Desertas, which are three or four rocks lying off the eastermost point of Madeira; the eastermost of these, called the Pyramid, forms the exact but singular appearance of a vessel under sail. Dec. 16. Came to anchor off Funchall. In approaching Funchall from the sea, the surrounding country appears prettily variegated with a great number of country seats, which, being white-washed, form a pleasing contrast with the green foliage of the vineyards, and may be seen at a great distance from the island. The town which is called Funchall, is situated on the south side of the island, and lies in the direction of east and west along the beach, on which there is always a great surf when the wind blows on the shore. The landing-place for | boats is on the west side, where the force of the surf is broken by the rocks. At this place stands the Looe rock, which is unconnected with the shore, and exhibits a curious appearance; there are a few guns upon it, but upon the whole the town appears to be very defenceless. The streets are exceedingly narrow and dirty, and few well-dressed people are to be seen. We found every article dear here; they trust to other places for supplies of necessaries, as the ground is almost wholly taken up in the cultivation of the vine; even at their taverns they charged half a dollar a bottle for very indifferent Madeira, Dec. 17. It came on to blow very fresh from the southward, and all the vessels in the bay cut their cables and put to sea.On the 18th, we kept under easy sail to leeward of the Desertas. Dec. 25. This day, usually dedicated to religious exercise, but more so to jollity and good living, returned to us under very inauspicious circumstances; for on the night of the 24th, it came on to blow very hard (To be continued.) |