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Review Of New Publications.
We are informed that Batavia is in a declining state , which appears from the numbers of untenanted houses that are in it , and ' the Company ' s vessels lying useless in the road , for want of cargoes to fill , or men to navigate them . ' ' The Embassador embarked on the 17 th of March , in order to be ready to enter into the Straits of Banka as soon as the monsoon , or periodical current of the windblowing in these seas for about six months with a
, northerly , and six with a southerly direction , should be favourable for vessels bound to China from the southward . ' After putting to sea , the necessity of a tender appeared so strong , that the ' Embassador sent back to Batavia to purchase such a one as the service required ; - to which , as a mark of respect to Admiral the Duke of Clarence , he gave his Royal Highness ' s name . '
boon after the squadron ' s arrival at North Island ' the long lost Jackal ! came into si ght . '—She had been obliged to stop some days at Madeira , where she arrived a few days after the Lion , had left it . She pursued the latter to St . Jago , which she reached , likewise , some days too late . From thence to North Island she did not come once to anchor . Her provisions were damaged by salt water ; and her crew was reduced to a very scanty pittance when she joined the Lion . '
The following instance of considerable civilization in the Malays of the island of Sumatra , is curious . ' Sir Erasmus Gower , previous to his d * eparture for Batavia , caused a board to be nailed to a post , erefted on the Sumatra beach , on which board were written directions for tlie Jackall , ia case she should call there in his absence . On his return , he perceived that the board had been taken down ; and the nails , which , it seems , were valuable to the Malays , carried away . And here a mere savage would have
restrd satisfied with the gratification of his own wants , and little solicitous about the objects for which the board had been placed there by strangers ; but the Malay , willing to reconcile' that objeft with his own , took care , after removing the nails , to replace the board with wooden pegs ; and it was found in this condition , inverted indeed , through ignorance of the language written on it . ' Here one of the people belonging to the Lion was -murdered , but the Malays on the coast ' alleged that the facl was committed , not by any of the inhabitants thereabouts , but by pirates , who sometimes stopped there for water .
These pirates are Malays also , but chiefly from the more eastern islands , who sail in boats , armed with 4 . or 6 guns each , or more , and going together in numerous fleets , had of late taken several vessels , ^ some belonging to the Dutch ; and some to the English settlements in India , called country . ships , as not trading out of Asia . Many of-these had been obliged to be at the expence of hiring marines , or armed men , to be kept on board for their better protection against these pirates , whose vessels , being of a
smaller size , and drawing little water , can use their oars in calms , and when they meet a superior force , often take shelter in the deep recesses in the south-east extremity cf Sumatra ; the whole of which is little more than a forest of mangroves , growing out of a salt morass . ' The ships proceeded to the bay of Bantam , the trade of which was formerly veiy great , but since the building of Batavia b y the Dutch , and the removal of the English to Hindostan and China' Bantam has been
, reduced to a poor remnant of its former opulence and importance , and the power of its sovereign has declined with it . ' This monarch ' resides in a palace , built in the European style , within a fort garrisoned by a detachment from Batavia , of which the commander sdces his orders , not from the king of Bantam , but froct a Dutch chief
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Review Of New Publications.
We are informed that Batavia is in a declining state , which appears from the numbers of untenanted houses that are in it , and ' the Company ' s vessels lying useless in the road , for want of cargoes to fill , or men to navigate them . ' ' The Embassador embarked on the 17 th of March , in order to be ready to enter into the Straits of Banka as soon as the monsoon , or periodical current of the windblowing in these seas for about six months with a
, northerly , and six with a southerly direction , should be favourable for vessels bound to China from the southward . ' After putting to sea , the necessity of a tender appeared so strong , that the ' Embassador sent back to Batavia to purchase such a one as the service required ; - to which , as a mark of respect to Admiral the Duke of Clarence , he gave his Royal Highness ' s name . '
boon after the squadron ' s arrival at North Island ' the long lost Jackal ! came into si ght . '—She had been obliged to stop some days at Madeira , where she arrived a few days after the Lion , had left it . She pursued the latter to St . Jago , which she reached , likewise , some days too late . From thence to North Island she did not come once to anchor . Her provisions were damaged by salt water ; and her crew was reduced to a very scanty pittance when she joined the Lion . '
The following instance of considerable civilization in the Malays of the island of Sumatra , is curious . ' Sir Erasmus Gower , previous to his d * eparture for Batavia , caused a board to be nailed to a post , erefted on the Sumatra beach , on which board were written directions for tlie Jackall , ia case she should call there in his absence . On his return , he perceived that the board had been taken down ; and the nails , which , it seems , were valuable to the Malays , carried away . And here a mere savage would have
restrd satisfied with the gratification of his own wants , and little solicitous about the objects for which the board had been placed there by strangers ; but the Malay , willing to reconcile' that objeft with his own , took care , after removing the nails , to replace the board with wooden pegs ; and it was found in this condition , inverted indeed , through ignorance of the language written on it . ' Here one of the people belonging to the Lion was -murdered , but the Malays on the coast ' alleged that the facl was committed , not by any of the inhabitants thereabouts , but by pirates , who sometimes stopped there for water .
These pirates are Malays also , but chiefly from the more eastern islands , who sail in boats , armed with 4 . or 6 guns each , or more , and going together in numerous fleets , had of late taken several vessels , ^ some belonging to the Dutch ; and some to the English settlements in India , called country . ships , as not trading out of Asia . Many of-these had been obliged to be at the expence of hiring marines , or armed men , to be kept on board for their better protection against these pirates , whose vessels , being of a
smaller size , and drawing little water , can use their oars in calms , and when they meet a superior force , often take shelter in the deep recesses in the south-east extremity cf Sumatra ; the whole of which is little more than a forest of mangroves , growing out of a salt morass . ' The ships proceeded to the bay of Bantam , the trade of which was formerly veiy great , but since the building of Batavia b y the Dutch , and the removal of the English to Hindostan and China' Bantam has been
, reduced to a poor remnant of its former opulence and importance , and the power of its sovereign has declined with it . ' This monarch ' resides in a palace , built in the European style , within a fort garrisoned by a detachment from Batavia , of which the commander sdces his orders , not from the king of Bantam , but froct a Dutch chief