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 XXVI. Intelligence and Miscellaiieous Articles. 



COUNT RUMFORD. 



W ITH regret we announce the death of that distinguished friend 

 of science and of mankind, Benjamin Count Rumford. This 

 lamentable event is thus mentioned in the French papers : 



" Ptiris, AusTiist 23, 1814. 

 " Count Rumford, member of the French Institute, and of the 

 Royal Society of London, died in the night between Sunday and 

 Monday, at his country seat at Auteuil, in consequence of a ner- 

 vous fever. This celebrated man dedicated his whole life to the 

 studv of the sciences, and always to the interests of humanity. 

 He has left several works, which cannot but make his memory 

 be cherished. He was in the 60th year of his age. His remains 

 were interred yesterday morning at Auteuil." 



MUNGO PARK. 



When Mr. James Grey Jackson returned to this country from 

 Morocco, some six or seven years since, he reported to the Earl 

 of Moira and to Sir Joseph Banks, on the authority of an Arabic 

 letter, which was written from Kabra, the port of Timbuctoo, 

 by a liberated negro, to his former master, a Moorish merchant, 

 then residing at Mogadore, that a small vessel or boat had an- 

 chored before Kabra, in the river (the Nile el Abeede), and that 

 this boat or vessel had hoisted a white flag ; that there were seen 

 in the boat, by the inhabitants of Kabra, three Christians, one of 

 whom was described as a very tall man, who stood up in the 

 boat, which remained before the port of Kabra until night ; but 

 the next morning nothing more was seen of it. This boat had, 

 as Mr. Jackson reported, no communication with the shore, but 

 it was presumed that it had passed on to the eastward, towards 

 Houssa. 



With the foregoing report of Mr. Jackson, let the following- 

 letter from Mr. Court of Mogadore, to Mr. Mitford of the Audit 

 Office, written not four months ago, be compared, and it will 

 appear not unreasonable to entertain a hope that Mr. Park and 

 two of his companions are still alive. 



" Mogadore, May 15, 1814. 



*' A Moor, arrived this day from Houssa, informed me that 

 with a large caravan, with which he left Timbuctoo, there were 

 three Christians, who have been many years in the interior of 

 Africa; that he travelled in company with them six days, and 

 separated from them about 70 days since, the caravan taking 

 the route to Tuart, and himself, with a part of it, to Totta ; that 



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