VOYAGE 
TO THE 
SANDWICH ISLANDS. 
September 8th, 1824.—His Majesty’s ship Blonde, of 
46 guns, commanded by Captain, the Right Honourable 
Lord Byron, then lying at Woolwich, received on hoard the 
bodies of the King and Queen of the Sandwich Islands. 
They had been previously deposited in a vault under the 
church of St. Martin’s in the Fields ; but His Majesty’s 
Government, in compliance with their wish to have their 
remains taken to their native Islands, appointed the Blonde 
to convey them and their surviving attendants thither. 
The coffins were attended to Woolwich by the chiefs, 
who then returned to London, whence they proceeded to 
Portsmouth to meet the frigate, and on the 28th of Sep¬ 
tember they embarked at Spithead, and the ship sailed on 
her interesting voyage the next day. 
