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and Captain Franklin’s prosperous voyage 
of this season has given us the cheering in- 
telligence of perfectly open water both 
ways on the 16th August.” 
Russian Voyage of Discovery.—Capt. 
Kotzebue has lately arrived at Portsmouth 
on his retura to St. Petersburgh, in the 
Russian corvette Enterprize, after thiee 
years’ absence, during which period he has 
been exploring the coast of North Ame- 
rica, adjacent to the Russian settlements, 
the Alenham Archipelago, the coast of 
-Kamtschatka, and the sea of Ochotsk, 
taking also the range of the South Sea 
Islands; visiting the Sandwich Island of 
Owyhee, since the burial of the King and 
Queen by Lord Byron. That island was 
tranquil, and advancing in prosperity. The 
natives expressed themselves much gratified 
with the attention bestowed on the remains 
of their late King and Queen. The En- 
terprize touched at Marria, which place 
she quitted on the 23d Jauuary, when the 
Spanish settlers had abandoned the idea 
of separating from the mother country of 
Spain, from which a new governor had 
recently arrived with a reinforcement of 
European troops. 
Subscription for Mr. Buchingham.—A 
public meeting was held on Saturday, June 
3, at. the Thatched-House Tavern, St. 
James’s, to consider of the propriety of an 
appeal to the public on the behalf of Mr. 
Buckingham; when Lord John Russel 
took the chair, and addressed the meeting 
in a speech of some length. The Hon. 
‘Douglas Kinnaird delivered a very impres- 
sive speech, urging with great force the 
frivolity of the charge on which Mr. Buck- 
ingham was banished from India; the ty- 
rannical conduct of the Indian government 
towards him, and the vindictive meanness 
with which they pursued him in his exile ; 
their wanton destruction of his property, 
after he was removed from the means of an- 
noying them; his estimable character and 
exemplary perseverance in a virtuous career ; 
his undeserved and most overwhelming 
losses; and the painful situation in which 
he was now placed, relying wholly upon 
the sympathy of the public for the 
means of fulfilling engagements which he 
had contracted, in the honest belief of full 
ability to meet them. Mr. Buckingham 
had a double claim upon the English peo- 
ple: asan honest man, involved in unfore- 
seen and unmerited troubles, he claimed 
their compassion ; as a man oppressed by 
ir-esponsible power, he appealed to their 
S-nse of justice. ‘The East-India Com- 
pany had denied him redress ; the pariia-. 
ment had done nothing for him; but he 
(Mr. Kinnaird) trusted that the public, 
which was above the parliament, would, by 
their honourable exertions, afford him the 
redress denied by those who ought to have 
. readily conceded it to him. Mr. Kinnaird 
concluded by proposing a resolution, re- 
-eommending a public: subscription on ac- 
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count of the peculiarity of his case. —This 
address was received by a very numerous 
and respectable auditory with warm ap- 
plause. Mr. Hume, Sir C. Forbes, Messrs. 
Maxfield, Burridge, Hill, Dr. Gilchrist, 
and Sir J. Doyle, and Mr. Buckingham 
himself (returning thanks), afterwards ad- 
dressed the meeting :—at the close of whiclr 
a subscription was entered into. More 
than £4,000 have been subscribed. : 
Poisonous Wounds.—The successful ap- 
plication of the cupping-glass to poisonous 
wounds has lately been made by Dr. Barry 
at Paris. By further experiments, it ap- 
pears, that an animal that has suffered the 
most fatal effect of the absorption into the 
blood of poisonous matters may, neverthe- 
less, be restored to life by this treatment ; 
as if the action of the cupping-glass had the 
power of recalling to the exterior the poison 
already introduced into the vessels. Dr. 
Barry strongly recommends the use of the 
cupping-glass followed by that of the cau- 
tery, in cases of the bite of a mad dog, 
even if the first symptoms of hydrophobia 
should have shewn themselves. 
Canal of the Pyrenees.—The royal canal 
of the Pyrenees, a plan of which has been 
presented to the French government, is to 
continue that of Languedoc from ‘Thou- 
louse to Bayonne. ‘The surveys are all 
finished, and extend over more than seventy 
leagues, in the whole of which line there is 
not a single obstacle of importance. This 
canal will pass through five fertile depart- 
ments, the produce of which it will be the 
means of spreading. A free navigation 
from one sea to the other, from the Medi- 
terranean to the Western Ocean, will be the 
immediate consequence of this great un- 
dertaking. 
Russian Canals. — The government of 
Russia has given orders for the immediate 
construction of canals to unite the following 
rivers: viz. the Moskwa and the Volga, the 
Sheksna and the Northern Dwina (which 
will make a direct communication between 
the ports of Archangel and St. Petersburgh, 
and open a conveyance for indigenous pro- 
ductions towards the Baltic), and, lastly, 
the Niemen and the Michael, across the 
kingdom of Poland. f 
Copenhagen. —Several successful experi- 
ments have been made to Macadamize the 
roads in the neighbourhood of Copenhagen, 
especially that which leads to the citadel. 
Several of the Danish journals speak of this 
process with the greatest praise. The 
editor of the Zealand Gazette goes so far 
as to rank it with the invention of steam- 
boats. Professor Bredsdorff, however, has, 
on the contrary, read in the Agricultural 
Society of Copenhagen, a dissertation, In| 
which he compares the new roads and the 
old, and gives a decided preference to the 
latter. : 
Ancient Greek Inscription.—In the neigh- 
bourhood of Rome an ancient tomb has re- 
cently beet: discovered with a Greek in 
