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water, and provisions, induced our 
author to visit Hanarura, in the island 
of Woahoo,’ one of the Sandwich 
islands, and an excellent port, which 
nature has»formed in the. coral reef 
on the southern side of that island. 
The inhabitants of the Sandwich 
islands, notwithstanding their frequent 
intercourse with civilized nations, have 
changed little in their abodes and 
mode of living; bntthey have adopted 
the tools of our carpenters, and use 
them dexterously. They are familiar 
with our fire-arms ; and like some of 
our manufactures, particularly light- 
blue ‘loth. 
Their cattle have increased: they 
have considerable herds of oxen, 
_ sheep, and goats; and also horses, 
which came originally from California. 
The nutives cultivate hardly any thing 
but cucurbitaceous plants; but M. 
Roquefeuil found at Woahoo an old 
Prussian soldicr, who practised gar- 
dening with success, and furnished. 
ships with excellent vegetables. Ano- 
ther European obtained pretty good 
wine from vines which he brought 
from California. 
Vhe Americans have obtained se- 
veral cargoes of sandal-wood from 
Woahoo; and ‘Yameamea himself 
sent some to China, on-board one of 
his ships, the flag of which had seven 
horizontal white and red stripes. This 
wood is still common in the four prin- 
cipal islands; but it has ceased to be 
much in request in Canton, and the 
ussians, who had formed an esta- 
. blishment on this latter island to pro-= 
cure it, have given it up, because the 
expenses exceeded the profit. So 
much the better > we could have wish- 
_ed that all these-pretty islands in the 
Great Ocean had been reserved for 
_ the unfortunate, who seeks a peaceful 
asylum; for the missionary, who feels 
himself called to preach the Divine 
Word; for some founder of a virtuous 
society, who, in’subduing the savage 
tribes before. they were acquainted 
with fire-arms, would have civilized 
them by the power of his bencfits, the 
example of bis companions, and the 
regular education of their children. 
Providence has ordained otherwise: 
sailors, merchants, exiles, have spread 
new vices, and new means of destruc- 
tion. However there are still many 
positions where, with some ‘slender 
means of cultivation and defence, a 
colony, well composed, subject to 
wise Jaws, and skilfully governed, 
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would become in a few-years a flou- 
rishing republic. 
M. “Roquefeuil gives us some idea 
respecting the immense trade which 
the Americans carry on with Canton. 
Thirty of their ships, the burthen of 
which amounted all together to 2200 
tons, arrived there from the Ist of 
July, 1815, to the 80th of June, 1816. 
In the following year there were 
thirty-eight ships, the total tonnage of 
which was 13,096 tons; the next year 
thirty-nine, carrying 14,325 tons ; and 
lastly, forty-seven vessels in the first 
ten months of the season of 1818 and 
1819. This commerce occasions a 
great exportation of money, to the 
prejudice of the United States. The 
total amount of the importation into 
China by American ships was, in the 
three first years above mentioned, 
15,213, 000 piastres, of which 12,068,000 
was in ready money. 
The English, on the contrary, have 
found means to make the Chinese 
accept in payment the woollen goods 
and metals of England, also cottons, 
opium, and other articles of British 
India. In the season 1817-18 there 
arrived in China sixteen of the Com- 
pany’s ships sent from England, and 
thirty-nine private vessels fitted out 
in India. The English goodsimported 
amounted to the value of 3,670,000 
piastres, and those of. India to 
12,456,000 piastres. 
The numerous nautical and ‘hydro- 
graphical observations in the narrative 
of this voyage do the greatest honour 
to the talents of M. Roquefeuil. 
——a 
To the Editor of the Montily Mag azine. 
SIR, 
HE passage mentioned by Mr. 
Lacey occurs in the second part 
of ShakSpeare’s ‘“‘ Henry the Fourth,” 
butno particular set of chimes appears 
to be alluded to. Falstaff, when re- 
minded by Shallow of their juvenile 
frolics, simply says, ‘‘ We have heard 
the chimes at midnight.” Shallow, it 
is true, in a previous scene remarks, 
that he “ was once of Clement’s Inn ;” 
yet the chimes heard by him and fat 
Jack might be those of any other pa- 
rish, since their rambles appear to 
have been very excursive: he says to 
Falstaff, presently after, ‘‘ Do you re- 
member since we lay all night in the 
Windmill in St. George’s-fields?” So 
much for this momentous point. 
I wish your correspondent had been 
somewhat more minute in his account 
of 
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