this man be taken care of."-They arrived, and attested the innocence of the negro.-"You are free," said the king; these two slaves of your master's are your's, and I give you part of his wealth to set you up with. Remember your sufferings and your master's punishment: go."

"A monk of Rio harboured revenge against a Frenchman, who had supplanted him with his mistress. He called a negro, and said to him: "Hark'ye, here are three piastres; they shall be your's, if, by means of this knife, you'dispatch, in less than half an hour, the Frenchman who has just gone into that shop. Will you do it?" -"Give me the knife?"-"Mind; he has a hat in the French fashion, and a very short blue coat. I'll wait for

you."-" Prepare your piastres." A man quitted the shop, and fell dead two paces from the door. "Wretch ?" cried the monk, "you have not killed the man I described; you have committed an useless crime, and shall have nothing for your pains." The culprit, filled with indignation, and careless of life, named his employer, and delivered himself up to the crowd collected round the corpse. The affair was brought before the proper tribunal: the slave was sent to Angola, and the monk sentenced to two years' confinement in his convent."

"A few days since, the queen, passing through a street, heard violent screams issuing from a house. She stopped her carriage, and ordered one of her guards to summon the master of the house to her. "Who is it that is scream. ing so terribly in your house ???" A slave, who is being flogged for stealing half a pound of sugar. "How many

lashes have you already inflicted?"-"Sixty."-How many is she to receive?"--"A hundred?"-"I request you to remit the rest."- "Your majesty shall be obeyed." "I thank you," said the queen, and drove away. She had reached the end of the street, when, suspecting the sincerity of the master, she sent back one of her guards to see whether he had discontinued the punishment, and the man found that he had resumed it with greater cruelty than before. The queen hurried back, and ordered the negress to be brought before her: "Fortunate for you, ," said she, "are the stripes you have received; they have obtained your liberty. As for you, wretch!"

added she, turning to the master, "you may rejoice that, by way of punishment, I merely deprive you of your

slave."

KINGSTON.

ISLAND OF JAMAICA-BRITISH WEST INDIES.

(Edinburgh Gazetteer.)

KINGSTON, a seaport town of the island of Jamaica,

constituted a city in 1802. It is situated on the south coast of the island, on the north side of a bay or inlet of the sea, in which vessels of the largest burden may anchor in safety. It was founded in 1693, after the destruction of Port Royal by an earthquake in the preceding year. The town, according to the original plan, was to be built in the form of a parallelogram, one mile in length, by half a mile in breadth; but it has of late years been greatly extended beyond this limit, by the addition of many handsome houses. It has two churches. The principal one is a large and elegant edifice, with four aisles, and a fine organ; the other, which has been lately erected for those of the Presbyterian persuasion, has also a very handsome appearance. There is besides, a theatre, a free-school established in 1729, a poor-house, and a public hospital. In the lower part of the town is the market-place, which is plentifully sup plied with butcher's meat, poultry, fish, fruit, and vegetables. Of the latter, besides those usually found in a tropical country, are many American and European, such as peas, beans, cabbage, lettuce, cucumbers, artichokes of the finest kind, carrots, turnips, radishes, onions, leeks, and other small sallads. These are brought from the Liguanea mountains. There are also great quantities of the finest pine apples, which grow on the Long mountain. Strawberries and apples likewise grow on the higher mountains; and grapes may be cultivated to any extent in the lower parts of the island.

Kingston from its situation on a plain, which rises, with a gradual ascent, to the foot of the Liguanea mountains, a distance of about six miles, enjoys the full benefit of the sea breezes which blow regularly the greatest part of the year. Population, including slaves 33,000.

ISLAND OF SOMBRERO.

WEST INDIES.

(Authentic Sources)

T HE Island of Sombrero is abont 3 miles long, and as many broad, entirely desert: but rendered interesting and worthy of note, from the circumstance of poor Jeffery, a sailor on board his majesty's brig the Recruit, being left there in the year 1808 or 1809, by Captain Lake, as a punishment for having tapped a barrel of beer when the water of the ship ran short, and the crew were put on limited allowance. The circumstances are thus related in Bucke's Harmonies of Nature.

"Two months after Jeffery was put on shore, the Recruit returning to the same latitude, the captain sent a boat, with several seamen, in order to retake the man on board; but he was nowhere to be seen:-and the crew concluded, that he had been devoured by the large birds, which frequent that barren rock in vast numbers. Jeffery, in the meantime, having been landed by two officers, with only the clothes he had on, was left helpless and hopeless, to endure all the agony of the apprehension of being devoured by birds, or dying of want. There was no shelter, and the heat of a tropical sun almost drove the unfortunate man to madness. The island be. ing a low rock, after searching for some time, he discovered water in some of the hollows, and a considerable quantity of birds' eggs, and a few limpets. On these he lived for nine days; during which time he observed several ships pass in the distance, to which he made sig. nals, but without effect; until he was discovered by the master of an American schooner, who took him on board, and landed him at Marblehead, in the county of Essex, in the province of Massachusetts.

In the meantime, the conduct of Captain Lake having been reported to the commander-in-chief of the WestIndian station, he was tried before a court-martial, and sentenced to be dismissed his Majesty's service. The Parliament of Great Britain, too, having, at the instance of Sir Francis Burdett, recommended a search for the unfortunate seaman, he was brought to England, and arrived in London in the month of October, 1809.

Those who saw him on his arrival say, they where particularly struck with the modesty of his manners, and the grave simplicity of his conversation. Deeply impressed with gratitude to Heaven for his preservation, there was a solemnity of tone in the artlessness of his remarks, that excited no small degree of admiration. He was then about one-and-twenty years of age.

Captain Lake's family having rewarded him for the sufferings he had experienced, Jeffery left London for Cornwall, where he was born, in order to visit his mother. He was met near Polperro by his father-in-law, who, soon after their first greeting, returned to apprize his mother of his arrival. The whole village now came forth to meet him; and nothing could exceed the joy with which he was welcomed. The meeting between him and his mother was affecting in the highest degree. She gazed upon him with bewildered anxiety, as if she could scarcely believe what she saw; but, recovering herself, they rushed into each other's arms, and for some moments, were lost in sobs and tears. Nothing but the arrival of Jeffery was talked of; while the joy of the villagers, and the tumultuous endearments of the mother and son, consecrated an evening, that will for many years be remembered in that village with the liveliest satisfaction.

Those tears are thine, which gem the eye,
And all her tears and anguish smother;

First when an infant's feeble cry

Proclaims the lovely fair" a mother."
And when that infant, grown a man,
O'er seas beset with wild alarms,
(Contracting space into a span,)

Shall spring into that mother's arms,
Who, that e'er felt as mothers feel,

Would her soft, trickling, tears forego?-
Not all the gold, that burnished steel
E'er won upon the field of woe,

Could tempt the mother, father, wife,
To check the rapturous throbs and tears,
Which quicken into instant life,

When that delighted son appears.

Ode to the Nymph of the Fountain of Tears.

QUEBEC.

CANADA-BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.

(Gray's Letters.)

UEBEC consists of an Upper and Lower Town:

Cape Diamond, at least upon the side of it, which slopes towards the river St. Charles. It is much elevated above the Lower Town, and separated from it by a line of steep rocks, which run from the cape towards the river St. Charles. Formerly the river St. Lawrence, at high water, came up close to these rocks; but as the tide rises and falls here about fifteen feet, it gave an opportunity of taking from the river a considerable space; wharfs were built at low water-mark, and even at some places beyond it, and the intermediate ground filled up to such a height that it remained dry at high water. Upon this situation streets were laid out, and houses built. These streets run from the upper side of Cape Diamond down to the river St. Charles, a distance of about half a mile; they are of considerable breadth, and the houses are large and commodious; those next the river have attached to them very extensive warehouses (called, in the language of Quebec, hangards), and vessels come close to the wharfs to discharge their cargoes.

The communication from the Lower Town to the Upper Town, is by a winding street; at the top of which is a fortified gate.

From the area of the market-place different streets diverge, leading to the different gates of the city; viz. Hope Gate, Palace Gate, St. John's Gate, and St. Lewis's Gate, besides the gate leading to the Lower Town;-these streets constitute the Upper Town. Outside of St. John's and Palace Gate there are extensive suburbs, which are increasing in size daily. The population of Quebec and its suburbs may be reckoned about ten thousand souls.

The ground for a considerable distance to the southwest of the city of Quebec is called The Plains of Abraham, famous for the battle in which General Wolfe beat the French. These plains are nearly on a level with the fortifications, and widen as you retire from