Russian Voyage of Discovery. A Letter from Dr. Martens, Botanist to the expedition, contains the following particulars:-" Our ship, the 'Siniävin,' sailed from the harbour of St. Peter and St. Paul on the 19th of October, 1827, and arrived on the 22nd of November off the island of Ooalan, which was re-discovered by captain Duperey, in the Coquille,' in 1824; where we found a people, n the purest state of nature. Not a single weapon, nor any thing resembling a weapon, was met with n the whole island. The complexion of the natives is of a bright brown, the arms and the thighs catooed, their hair in a bunch braided together upon the head, and adorned with flowers; their features resemble those of the Malays. Our naturalists found hem most faithful guides on their excursions, and the most careful keepers of the insects and plants which they collected. One of their chiefs, named Sipa, offered them his dwelling for their residence; and here also they had an opporcunity of making themselves acquainted with the domestic arrangements of the inhabitants. The Doalanese are particularly disinguished from the inhabitants of the other Carolines, by being enirely free from the propensity to stealing. They treat their women with great kindness and affection. We could not obtain any clear

notions of the religion of these people. Their diet consists of bread-fruit, banians, sugar-cane, cocoa-nuts, fish, snipes, pigeons, and some wild fowl. As far as we could learn, the island is divided into between forty and fifty districts, each of which contains several villages, and belongs to a chief. Several of these chiefs live on a small island, separated from the rest of the inhabitants. One of them was treated with particular reverence: he might be considered, in some measure, as the king of the whole. After remaining three weeks among these people, the

Siniävin' continued its voyage on the 20th of December. On the 2nd of January, 1828, they discovered a new group of islands, the highest and also the largest of all the Carolines, except the Pellew Islands. The ship cruised eight days among these islands; but no attempt to land was made, because the inhabitants appeared very hostile. When the 'Siniävin' put out a boat, to look for an anchorage or landing-place, it was immediately surrounded by other boats, the crews of which used very menacing gestures. They carried short spears, headed with teeth of the saw-fish, and a sling made of plaited rushes. When pistols charged only with powder were fired at them, they made no impression on them, and yet every thing indicated that these natives

had never before seen Europeans. Their hair was rather short, and beautifully curled: they wore about their waist a girdle, with very deep, dark-red fringe; this girdle covered a part of the breast, and was fastened on one shoulder." Notwithstanding the beautiful appearance of these fine lofty islands, captain Lütke would not attempt to land; because it was evident that it could not be done without bloodshed. The naturalists were, therefore, disappointed of their expected harvest, and the 'Siniävin' proceeded on her voyage. A dog was all that they carried away. The letter continues:-"On the 13th of January we descried Los Valientes-low, miserable islands; the wretched inhabitants of which did not appear even to possess boats. On the 18th we arrived off the Mamuricks; and on the 23rd, off Mortlock islands (discovered in 1796), the natives of which appeared very amiable and civilised, which is probably to be attributed to their intercourse with the other Carolines and with Manilla. Their ships are calculated for long voyages, and are provided with compasses. An unexpected sight here was an English three-masted ship, the Partridge' whaler, which, like many others of that class, has since 1823 visited the coast of Japan, in pursuit of spermaceti whale. As this ship had been almost as long absent from Europe as the 'Siniävin,' the crew could not give us any news: however, mutual visits were paid, which could not be otherwise than agreeable in this distant part of the world. On the 2nd of February we discovered the island of Rug: and on the 8th, Union Island. Ön the 17th, the Siniävin' arrived in the harbour of Caldera de Apra,

where she remained till the 7th of March, during which time the Spanish governor showed us every kind of attention and politeness. On the 30th of March we cast anchor off the island of Ooropick, and this was the termination of our voyage, after five months cruise, in the tropical regions. On the 18th we discovered the bleak and barren rocks of the island of Rosario, or Disappointment; and on the fol lowing day we were fortunate enough to see the beautiful islands of Bonin, which had been previously discovered, but whose existence was afterwards doubted, as Krusenstern could not find them! The Siniävin' had been anticipated in this re-discovery by the English sloop the 'Blossom,' which had been sent to meet captain Franklin in Behring's Straits: a board which it had left, showed that captain Beechey, the commander, had taken possession of the islands the preceding year, in the name of his Britannic Majesty. In one of these islands, which was otherwise wholly uninhabited, captain Lütke found two Europeans, living in great distress; á Prussian, Charles Wettrin, of Königsburg; and John Peterson, a Norwegian, who had served on board an English ship which was wrecked on this island in 1826, but the crew of which happily got on shore. Another English ship, which arrived six weeks afterwards, took the crew on board; but left Wettrin and Peterson behind, who wished to save as much from the wreck as possible, but received a promise that they should be taken off by the last ship in its return from the coast of Japan. This promise; however, was not fulfilled; and captain Lütke took them with him. These islands may become very

had made part of the major's escort to be brought from Ghadamis. The truth was at length on the point of being known; but this truth was too formidable to Hassouna D'Ghies for him to dare to await it, and he therefore took refuge in the abode of Mr. Coxe, the consul of the United States. The Pacha sent word to Mr. Coxe, that he recognised the inviolability of the asylum granted to Hassouna; but that the evidence of the latter being necessary in the prosecution of the proceedings relative to the assassination of major Laing, he begged him not to favour his flight. Colonel Warrington wrote to his colleague to the same effect. How ever, Hassouna D'Ghies left Tripoli on the 9th of August, in the night, in the disguise, it is said, of an American officer, and took refuge on board the United States corvette Fairfield, captain Parker, which was then in the roads of Tripoli, and weighed anchor on the 10th of August, in the morning.

"The Pacha, enraged at the escape of Hassouna, summoned to his palace Mohamed D'Ghies, brother of the fugitive, and there, in the presence of his principal officers, commanded him to declare the truth. Mohamed fell at his master's feet, and declared upon oath, and in writing, that his brother Hassouna had had major Laing's papers in his possession; but that he had delivered them up to Baron Rousseau, for a deduction of forty per cent on the debts which he had contracted in France, and the recovery of which this person was endeavouring to obtain by legal proceedings.

"The declaration of Mohamed

extends to three pages, containing details respecting the delivery of the papers of the unfortunate major, and all the circumstances of this strange transaction.

The shape and the size of the major's papers are indicated with the most minute exactness; it is stated that these papers were taken from him near Timbuctoo, and subsequently delivered to the person above mentioned entire, and without breaking the seals of red wax.

"Mohamed, however, after he had left the palace, fearing that the Pacha, in his anger, would make him answerable for his brother's crime, hastened to seek refuge in the house of Baron Rousseau, and to implore his protection. Soon afterwards the consul-general of the Netherlands, accompanied by his colleagues the consuls-general of Sweden, Denmark, and Sardinia, proceeded to the residence of the person pointed out as the receiver, and in the name of colonel Warrington, and by virtue of the declaration of Mohamed, called upon him instantly to restore major Laing's papers. He answered haughtily, that this declaration was only a tissue of calumnies; and Mohamed, on his side, retracted his declaration, and even went so far as to deny his own hand-writing.

"The Pacha, in a transport of rage, sent to Mohamed his own son, Sidi Ali. Mohamed, threatened with being seized by the chiaoux, retracted his retractation; and, in a new declaration, in the presence of all the consuls, confirmed that which he had made in the morning before the Pacha and his officers."

St. Amand, the battle of Famars, the siege of Valenciennes, and the attack of Dunkirk, and in 1794 at the affair of Vaux (the news of the successful result of which he was selected to convey to his late majesty), and the attack of the 10th of May, near Tournay. On the last occasion he was severely wounded, which prevented him from being actively employed till the autumn of that year, when he again joined his royal highness.

In the year 1796, being very anxious to engage in more active service than he could have done as aide-de-camp in England, he went with the expedition under the late sir Ralph Abercrombie to St. Lucia, and afterwards joined the 66th regiment, of which he had recently been appointed lieutenant-colonel, at Port-au-Prince, St. Domingo. Here his health was severely affected by the climate; and as there did not appear the least probability of any active operations in that island, his friends obtained an exchange for him into the 1st regiment of Guards, which he again joined in the course of the year 1797. He had in the interim been taken prisoner on his passage to Europe, and carried to Nantes, and it was not without much difficulty that he obtained an exchange.

In the summer of 1798 he embarked with the 3rd battalion of the 1st Guards for Ireland, and there served that short but active campaign, when he was appointed aide-de-camp to the lord-lieutenant, marquis Cornwallis, who placed him temporarily at the head of the 3rd battalion of Light Infantry, and, on the invasion of the French under general Humbert, in the autumn of that year, called on

him to act on his personal staff. In the summer of 1799, lord William Bentinck having been charged with a military mission to the Austro-Russian army in Italy, then under the command of marshal Suwarrow, lieutenantcolonel H. Clinton was appointed to accompany him; served during the remainder of that campaign, at the head-quarters of the Russian marshal, and was present at the battles of the Trebia and Novi, and at the sieges of Alexandria and Tortona, and the attack of Serravel. At this latter place, while observing it in a rather exposed situation, he received a slight contusion on the shoulder. In the autumn of that year, marshal Suwarrow having been ordered to march with his victorious Russians over the Alps for the purpose of joining the Russian corps under general Korsakow in Switzerland, which was threatened with an attack from the French army under general Massena, lieutenant-colonel H. Clinton was selected by lord Mulgrave, then on a mission to the emperor of Austria, to accompany the Russian commander-in-chief. The advanced season of the year rendered that enterprise in the highest degree perilous; though happily executed, it was not accomplished without the severest exertions, the loss of a considerable number of men, and some very sharp fighting; more especially near the famous pass of the Teufels-Bruch, and in the Muttenthal. On the subsequent retreat of the allied army, and withdrawal of the Russian troops from the scene of action, lieutenant-colonel H. Clinton returned to England, and was on the point of joining his old