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From the secretary to the government we ob- l$ 10. 
tained information that Captain de Freycinet, of Nov. 
the French Corvette L’Uranie, had visited Coe- 
pang in October last, and remained there fifteen 
days. L’Uranie was fitting out at Toulon when 
we left England, in 1817, for a voyage round the 
world, and was expected on her way to touch 
upon the western coasts of New Holland ; but it 
appeared that the only place which Captain De 
Freycinet visited was Shark’s Bay, on the west- 
ern coast ; he remained there a short time for the 
purpose of swinging his pendulum, and of com- 
pleting the astronomical observations that had 
been previously made during Commodore Bau- 
din’s voyage. We also heard that the master 
and four of the crew of the ship Frederick, the 
wreck of which we had seen at Cape Flinders, 
had arrived at Coepang in a ship that was in 
company with her at the time of the accident ; 
but what became of the Frederick’s long boat, 
which left the wreck with twenty-three of the 
crew, in company with the master’s boat, in 
which were only four or five people, never after- 
wards transpired. 
After leaving Coepang the wind, which fresh- 
ened up from the E.b.N., continued steady un- 
til the following day, when we were at noon ]0 . 
in 10° 36' 47" S., the summit of Savu bearing 
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