prefented themselves to each other. An indifferent fpec tator would have been at a lofs which moft to admire; the eyes of famine fparkling at immediate relief, or the horror of their preservers at the fight of so many spectres, whofe ghaftly countenances, if the cause had been unknown, would rather have excited terror than pity. Our bodies were nothing but skin and bones, our limbs were full of fores, and we were clothed in rags in this fqualid condition, with the tears of joy and gratitude flowing down our cheeks, the people of TIMOR beheld us with a mixed fenfation of horror, surprise, and pity.

They ran with eagerness to procure a furgeon to dress our wounds, to get apparel to cover our nakedness, and a place fuitable for our reception. The governor, who was dying of an incurable disease, even haftened from his bed to welcome our arrival. People ran with chairs, tables, benches, and bedding, to an empty houfe that was affigned us. A plentiful dinner was foon laid before us: but for my own part I felt no extraordinary inclination to eat or drink. My mind kept musing on the mercy of ALMIGHTY GOD, who had made me the inftrument of faving eighteen lives; and as I reflected how providentially we escaped at Tofoa, by the Indians

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delaying their attack; and that, with not more provisions than might have been confumed in five days, we croffed a fea of more than twelve hundred leagues, without shelter from the inclemency of the weather; that in an open boat, with so much stormy weather, we escaped foundering; that not any of us were taken off by disease; that we had the great good fortune to pass the unfriendly natives of other countries without accident, and at last happily to meet with the most friendly and beft people to relieve our diftreffes;-I fay, when I reflected on all these wonderful escapes, the remembrance of such great mercies enables me to bear, with refignation and cheerfulness, the failure of an expedition, the fuccefs of which I had fo much at heart, and which was frustrated at a time when I was congratulating myself on the fairest profpect of being able to complete it in a manner that would fully have answered the intention of his Majefty, and the humane promoters of fo benevolent a plan.

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That the state of Captain BLIGH and his company was that of ACCUMULATED IRRITABILITY, is ftrongly pointed out.

ift. From one tea-fpoonful of rum producing on thefe poor men, benumbed as they were with cold, as much effect as twenty times the quantity would have on those who are warm and well fed. And indeed had it not been for the spirits having such a power to act upon men in their condition they never could have furvived the hardships they experienced.

2dly. From the berries found in New Holland producing fymptoms of intoxication*, which would not have arisen under any other circumstances.

3dly. By the general want of fleep at first, and that which was obtained not refreshing; but, as with extreme cold, when the accumulation of irritability was fuch as to threaten the extinction of life, I obferved, fays this gallant officer," a more than "common propenfity to fleep +."

In the laft campaign in India, when the Marquis CORNWALLIS was in poffeffion of TIPPOO SULTAN'S palace, and his gardens, at Bangalore, and was preparing to drive him from his capital, the indignant fultan ex-. preffed his ineffectual rage by the continual fire of cannon on our troops. As this display of his wrath could effect little, he came to Lieutenants CHALMERS and NASH, with the welcome tidings of an intended release, and requested them to take two letters on the subject of peace, which he said he had been very anxious to obtain ever fince the commencement of the war. He presented them with two shawls each, and five hundred rupees, and ordered borfes and attendants to go with them to the camp. He had at this very time concerted a scheme to destroy the commander in chief of our forces, whom he thought by this expedient to lull into a treacherous fecurity. As our allies, the NIZAMS, had their army ftationed at some small distance from ours, he ordered a party of horse to steal between the two armies, which affecting to belong to the NIZAM, asked our piquets for the Burra Said, or chief. Not suspecting them to be enemies, they pointed to his tent. These horsemen galloped immediately towards the tent, and having drawn their (words, cut down feveral lascars and people in their rout.

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A party of fepoys having turned out with alacrity, their progrefs was foon ftopt. Some fhots were fired at them as they retreated, but they got off however, having sustained very little lofs.

This scheme, fays Major DIRAM, was one of those daring projects that have been so frequently practised by the native powers against each other in effecting revolutions in the Eaft: and had these affaffins been conducted by a guide, or their judgment been equal to their fpirit in the attempt, it is poffible they might have effected their murderous project. But the Mahomedan horse, when fent upon such services, are kept fasting, and then intoxicated with bang, a plant mixed with their tobacco, of which they take a large dofe before they enter upon fo hazardous an enterprife. This inebriation renders their exertions fo wild and difunited, that it is almost impoffible for them ever to prove successful against a vigilant enemy.

It was thus in former days, when the Jesuits wanted any defperate act of wickedness to be done, having pitched upon their man, they would shut him up in a large chamber lighted with a small taper no bigger than one's little finger, and hung with black cloth, on which were painted hell flames and devils, and all manner of

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