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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE.
-10 An English embassy, which set out in February, 1816, and remained 15 days. 11. That about to be conducted by M. Lagrenée, Alt must be remarked," adds La Presse, “that the English Ambassadors nover approached the Emperor of China, because they always protested against the laws of etiquette observed at fuc Court of the Celestial Empira. In order to approach the Emperor, it is necessary to proceed from the door to the throne on the knees, to strike the head nine times against the ground, and to kiss the left heel of the sublime Emperor several times.'
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Mr. Gulliver, of the Blues, and Lieut. Cuddy, of the 55th Regt, were put upon thoir trial at the late ses- sions at the Central Criminal Court, charged with the murder of the late Lieut. Col. Fawcett, Mr. Gull- iver was discharged at once, the Attorney General considering that the evidence against that gentleman The trial proceeded would not warrant a conviction. against the other prisoner, who was distinctly shown to have been present when the deceased fell; but the jury did not appear to be satisfied beyond a doubt, that he was present "aiding and abetting," and he was ac cordingly acquitted. From what has now come to light, there is reason to believe that the judicious in- terference of friends might have easily reconcile& all differences. There appears to have been no very hos- tile purpose in the mind of either party; for it seems Col. -Fawcett did not intend firing at Lieut. Monro, and that Lieut. Mouro would not have fired at his opponent, but that he thought Col. Fawcett was deliberately covering him.-Londan Mail.
We have been requested to give insertion to the following. ED. FRIEND OF CHINA]
Letters have been just received, which announce that in January, 1843, Bishop Castro at Pekin received intelligence from Corea, that towards the close of the year 1839, Bishop Jinbert, the Rev. Messrs, Chastan and Mauban, together with seventy Christians were beheaded for the faith. In addition to this large num- ber of glorious martyrs for Christ, one hundred and eighty other Christians were put to death by being strangled, perhaps, because these latter followers of the Saviour belonged to the humbler classes of their coun trymen. We have to record, moreover, the death by- fever or dysentery of four of the apostolic labourers of the Society of Jesus in the flourishing Mission of Madura. Letters from China state that two French Priests have proceeded to the frontiers of Corea, in order to take the place of their brethren, whose martyrdom we recorded in our preceding number. One of these -two holy candidates for martyrdom is to be consecra- ted Bishop by Monseigneur Reeloies, Vicar, Apostolic of Least and to succeed to the Martyred Bishop Imbert, whose death our late Issue also made men- tion of Three French Priests have lately embarked at Bordeaux in the Gange. Two of them are desti- ned for Cochin China, and the third for China.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
PORT ELIZABETH, 16th October.-On the 12th in- stant, at 2,30. PM, the barque Abbotsford, which ar- rived from London 1st inst, bound to this port, parted from her anchors in a E. S. E. breeze and came on the beach. All hands saved. The vessel has been
.condemned..
On Wednesday evening Aug. 16th, the Marion ship, from Calcutta, arrived in the West India Dock; and on her voyage home, when off the Cape of Good Hope, on the 9th June, she encountered a terrific storm which occasioned the loss of five lives. It com- menced a few minutes after eleven o'clock in the fore noon. The electric fluid struck the vessel aft, tearing up several planks of the deck, knocking down the man at the wheel named John James, destroying the com- pass, and killing two men on the spot who were at the moment ascending the ladders. The electric fluid also shattered one of the large beams, and passing down between the hammocks, scorched two of the crew, so as to cause their deaths some short time after. wards. There was a tremendous sea running at the time, and one of the crew, named Robinson, was wash- ed overboard, and in less than a minute was washed back again, but the poor fellow, after this miraculous escape from a watery grave, expired from the injuries he received three weeks after. The vessel was soon discovered to be on fire, and the utmost consternation and alarm ensued, and all on board gave themselves u for lost, as it was expected the magazine would explode. Pope, however, with great presence of mind, all hands to the pumps and providentially the were extinguished before reaching it.
List of Breakers, Rocks, and Shoals, marked on an Engraved Sparish Chart, published at Madrid in 1840, under the authority of the Spanish Government, and which are not marked, or which are differently placed, in Horsburgh's Chart of the China Seag, Edition of the Year 1840.
N..
---English Translation of Spanish hames.
1 Fanny's Shoal (doubtful)
9 Flat Island (scen repeatedly situation:
uncertain)
Lat. N.. 10°58′ 40′′
10 00 00
70 57 50 $1100.00 10-44 60
•
Long. E of Greenwich.
Dangers.
11034 10 Rock above water.
111 02 00 Rock and breakers.
112 40 00 Small Island and rocks.
112 57 50 Cluster of Rocks,
112 51 31 Rocks,
10 41 0) 112 40 30
115 40 00 Small Taland and Rocks
115 53 30 A Rock.
116 37 30 Shoal 5 fathoms
10.39 00
11 02 00
10 59 40
10 35 00
117 37 00 Rock.
117 54 00 Shoal.
117 57 00 Breakers,
11 11 00118 52 20 Shoal.
9.-09.00
109 03 00 Rock.
2
Alexander's Shwal
3
Essex Island
Dolphin's Breakers (very doubtful)
10 37 40
112 52 00
Do.
Do.
7
10. 20 00
112 33 30
Do,
11:03 bo
10
Third Thomas Shoal, 1839
10 59 50
Shoal and Breakers of the Sea horse
10.40 20
115 15 00:
12
Brown's Bank 1828
10 32 30
13
Do.***
. Do,
10-35 00
116 59 30 A Rock.
14
Do. Do.
117 14 30 Shoal.
15
Sandy's Shoal
16
Sea horse in 1778
17
Holmes's Shoal in 1835
18.
Brown's Bank 1838
19
Middleburgh's Shoak(very doubtful)
20
Gossard's Reefs (doubtful)
8 59 40
110 39 10 Do.
21
Andrada Rock
do.
9 47 30
111 10 00 Do.
22
Breakers, Fanny
024610
23
First Thomasy Shoal
9 22 00
115 59 30 Rock.
24
Second Do.
Do.
9 46 00
25
Carloter's (Charlotte's Shoal
7 16 00
26 Phaeton's Shoal
03 40
27 Galloway's Rock (very, doubtful)
6 33 10
28
Bombay Castle's Shoal 1836
7 49 30
29
Various banks within this space
according to the Ardaseer
7 27.00
to
8 02-00
30
No name
6 52 00
31
Do. 4.
7 45 00- 5.44 00
32 Mackinnon's Reef 1839
113 62 50 Rocks above water.
115 49.80 DS.
107 36.00 Shoal.. 107 29 30 Do. 107 40 00 Rock 111 47.00 113 15 00
to
114 46 00
Do.
A large space with rocks and breakers
in various parts.
114 22 00 Shoal.
111 48 30 Rocks. 111 36 00 Do.
Those who are acquainted with the hydrography of the China Sea, will perceive that amongst these dangers, such as the Fanny's, Sea Horse's, Ardaseer's, Andrada, Middleburgh's and Gossard's reef &c. are taken from our old Charts and directions of the late, or beginning of the present century, and it was at first intended to add to this list brief remarks upon each of them. But it was found that was alike as impossible to say upon what good authority these had been expunged from our Charts, as upon what data they had been introduced on the Spanish Chart together with those which are from these dates new discoveries, as the Thomas and Browns dangers of 1839. It is clear that in some cases at least, the authority for placing these new shoals might be also that for replacing some of the old dangers. It is objected that nothing is so vexations as the covering a Chart with ofs and Shoals which do not exist. No doubt this often occasions loss of time and anxiety, but the careful Sean would we believe prefer having these dangers even erroneously marked in his Chart, than be led to believe that there was an open sea where even one existed. It is at least the duty of the Hydrographer to remind him that this part of the China Seas is studded with them, and it may not perhaps be out of place here to add, (for it throws much light on this question) that recent Geological researches (we allude especially to Mr. Charles Darwin's beautiful work on Coral reefs) render it certain that coral reefs and low islands are not only the tops of mountains rising from the depths of the ocean upon which the polypi then build, but that they are subject to alternate sinkings and risings within longer or shorter periods of time, so that Islands reefs or banks may appear or disappear in a night, and this even over large spaces. Mr. Darwin believes the China Sea to be an area of depression, vizt a space in which at some former period a great sinking of the crust of the earth took place, while the Phillipines, and perhaps Borneo were raised from the Ocean. As a sequel to these great con- vulsions smaller disturbances may continue for centuries in particular spots, and it is quite probable that many of the dangers of the China Seas may be elevated or sunk from time to time by this cause. The island of Cheduba in the Bay of Bengal has had a large piece added to it by an earthquake with an elevation of the bed of the sea, within the memory of the present inhabitants. See Captain Halsted's Report in the Journal of the Asiatic Society, Vol. X. page 454.
It is unnecessary to add more to warn the seaman of the extreme precaution required should he be entangled in this dangerous quarter of the China Sea, or to explain why we have preferred marking again many old dangers now expunged from our modern charts, since if they have once disappeared which we do not know, there is always some possibility of their re appearance, which we certainly do know.
Calcutta, 10th February, 1843.
H. PIDDINGTON, Acting Secretary, Asiatic Society.
(Signed)
In addition to the above the Master attendant at Madras having communicated the following Shoals and remarks, they are annexed as follows.
Name of Shoal.
N.o
1 Alexander's Shoal
2 Warden's Shoal
3 Kestrel's Shoal, seen by Capt. Beau- vais in 1842, probably the same as Warden's
Mackinnon's Reef
4
5
Pearl Bank
6 Reef in fair way between Pulo Con- dore and the Charlotte Bank Shoal in Mindora Sea
Lat. N.
10° 28' 00"
Long. E.
Remarks.
111 2700 Corrected in Nautical Magazine March
1842.
8 30 00 112 00 00 Seen by several vessels, position not well
defined.
8 42 00
111 35 00 By dead reckoning.
8 44 00 111 35 00
7 36 00111 25 00 Least water ascertained 9 fathoms,
7 30 00 107 01 00 Supposed to be on good authority. 11 35 00 121 21.00 Ship Marquis Camden wrecked on this
to
Shoal in 1839, which lies E.SE. of the Falmouth Bank.
to
8.
Do.
Do.
9 Do.
Do.
11 40 00 11 51 00 11 40 00
121 10 00 121 30-00
10
Do. Do.
10 05 00
Oo
11
Western extreme of Apo Shoal or Merope Shoal in the Mindora Sea
12 49 00
120 20 00
Her Majesty's 49 Regt. of foot from China, red every assistance in their power to ex-
fire.
most extraordinary fact that the man at the not injured, and not a single, mark appear bodies of the deceased men to indicate that met a violent death,
Broben; Galaten, Owen Mary Ann, Loke, St ann Londin, Gunton, Penella,
Curra Ball Concordia, Dorr: City of London, Martin Georg hardson Ann, Greene, Louies, Donald Lively, Bolway, Epence, Nabob, Wilson Clivia, Roome Kenrick Pearl Barrows, Planet, Balile Harmony, an van Hoorn Keemang Conch Bell Saldanha Bay v: Maid of Mona, Blake,
BATH, M. S. Winchester Capt. C. Eden C.B.H.M.S derbolt, C m. G. Broke, H. M. 9. Lily, Com. G; Bak Decanto (Saver) Lu Molesworth, in charge
ALGO BAY Mary Ann, Medus Richmond Abbotsford, Pigon; Carl Wilhelm, Eichs Phen I
121 40 00 Barque Chusan grounded on this sheal
in June 1842, 121 47 00 Lately discovered.
N. E. COAST OF CHINA-Crown Blundell Islands distant 15 miles from Morrison Island Blundell Island extends 30 miles in a N. N. E and J direction and is in Lat: 287 4 N and Long, 129° 38′ E. Blundell Island is higher than the others and is very uneven and composed of high sharp peaks -Crown Island is
lower and more level
Commanders of all Vessels navigating the Chima Sear are advised to be cautious in their approach
South Natunas, as there is reason to been well surveyed, and may be out by night and by
passage
The true pos
I am of opm
stated in the a
will
of the Wes mion Reef T
to be due 8. W
bearing is not sufficiently defin
of Maclennon', Shoul will be 89, 44 and not 5
the Rocks and Islands to the southward oft
aid down in a word
ceed by the fired out
the
ave not
tent attention Palawan Coast or by the Easten
be 8. W by W. an
Cape Bapping List
By order of the Marine Board C.B. Gale atta, May 30th 1348.
C. B. GREENÍ.
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