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by Captain l oane, who was at Mocha with Captain Sparks, and was 
loaded with rice and sugar. We had the satisfaction of receiving by 
himEnghsh newspapers down to February, and Bengal news of only 
two months old : and first heard of Lord Wellesley's departure, 
and Lord CornwalHs's arrival, and death on the 5th of October 
last. He brought me a letter from Mr. Maxfield, informing me of 
his arrival at Bengal, of his having been favourably received by the 
Marquis, and his expectations that he should be employed to com- 
plete the survey of the Red Sea. I had also a short letter from 
Mr. Graham, who, however, thought there was little chance of its 
reaching me in Asia. We now learned that the government of 
Bombay had been most kindly attentive to all our wants, and had 
actually forwarded every kind of stores to Mocha by the Prince, 
Captain Young, which was taken up for this purpose only. Mr. 
Young arrived on the 15 th of November at Mocha, and received 
my letter, and Mr. Pringle's, ordering him to follow us to Massowah, 
but with which he did not choose to comply. Had he done so, he 
would have met us there after our misfortune on the 1 8th, would 
have liberated us from our difficulties, and have enabled us to 
settle with the Nayib. Captain Loane informed me that Mr. 
Pringle was recalledj-and meant to return in the Prince to Bombay. 
Unfortunately he had detained every article, and even our letters, 
under the idea that before this we had reached Suez. Captain 
Loane supplied our wants so far as lay in his power, by letting us 
have twelve dozen of wine, some butter, pickles, geese, and 
biscuit. He also parted with a small stream anchor, which he had 
over and above his complement. Jelani's uncle and some mer- 
chants came on board the Panther in the morning, to request 
