CHRONICLE. 
a first-rate production, is full of in- 
formation, and among the latter ef- 
forts of that species ofliterature,ranks 
high. Mr. A. died, justly regretted 
and esteemed by all moderate men. 
At Mirfield, near Leeds, in the 
Moravian school there, in the 19th 
or 20th year of his age, Joseph 
Oly, a native of the island of Ota- 
heite. It appears, from many cir- 
eumstances, that he was a rela- 
tion of Pomarré, (the Otoo of capt. 
Cook), the king of the country ; 
but, from the abominable levity of 
sexual imtercourse in that island, 
it is dificult to ascertain the exact 
degree of consanguinity. However, 
from his own account, and that of 
his late companion, Christian My- 
dowe, whose death we have already 
announced, (see p. 520), as well as 
other accounts come to hand, it ap- 
pears, beyond a doubt, that he was 
one of the areories or nobility of 
that country. He lived, it seems, 
some months, with the missionaries 
at Mattavia Bay, with whom he was 
well acquainted, and used frequently 
to mention them by name, particu- 
larly a Mr. Broomhall,in whose apart- 
ment he resided. A Spanish brig, 
prize to the Cornwall and Betsy, 
south-whalers, belonging to the port 
of London, touching at Otaheite, 
in February 1799, on her way to 
Port Jackson, he was persuaded to 
embark in her, with another Ota- 
heitean youth of the name of Di- 
didee, who afterwards died -of a 
spitting of blood in London. In 
this ship he sailed to the whale- 
fishery, and afterwards came to Lon- 
don, from whence he made a voyage 
to the West Indies; on his return, 
he was found out by his countryman 
Mydowe, who hearing from a sailor, 
he accidentally met in Wapping, 
that a countryman of his was. on 
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board a ship in the river, took a 
boat, and, on meeting, they recog- 
nized each other, and cdme together 
to town, where Mydowe had already 
met with friends in some members 
of the missionary societies, After 
a stay of some time in London, they 
were both generously placed, by 
that society, under the care of the 
rev. doctor Okely, in Mirfield, with 
a view to their instruétion in useful 
branches of learning, and also in 
the truths of the christian religion, 
and finally to be sent home again, 
qualified to be of use to their be- 
nighted country. Their progress in 
learning was pleasing ; but though . 
they evinced sufficient, it may even 
be said acute capacities, it was diffi- 
cult to make them attend to those 
minutie which children must go 
through before they can read and 
write, though there is every reason 
to suppose, had Providence prolong- 
ed their lives, this difficulty would, 
in tine, have been overcome. Oly 
had been, for some months back, 
labouring wader a pulmonary con- 
sumption, which bafited all the ef. 
forts of art. He bore his illness: 
with exemplary patience, and met 
death with that serenity and com. 
posure which nothing can give but 
a truly christian and believing hope 
in the efficacy of our holy religion, 
3d. Mrs. E. Mathew, aunt to 
the earl of Landaff, who succeeds: 
to the lifesuse of 10,0001. of which 
3,000]. is bequeathed to lady K. 
Mathew ; and the remainder, a 
landed estate, devolves, at his.lord- 
ship’s death, to his second son, the 
hon. col. Mathew. 
Interred, in St. George’s-chapel, 
Windsor, in the same grave with 
her beloved husband, the hon. Anne 
Brudenell, reliét of the hon, col. 
Robert Brudenell, and one of the 
bedchamber 
