1803.] 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AVING often,sheard you exprefs 
difguft at a crowded church-yard,and . 
your approbation of thofe fecluded fpots 
which are fometimes referved by the pro- 
prietor of ornamented grounds, as a repo- 
litory for the dead, Itake up my pen with 
pleafure, to relate an accidental difcovery, 
much in unifon with your feelings on this, 
fubject. 
You remember Rufticus, the friend and 
companion of our early years; I lately 
{pent moft agreeably a few days in his hof- 
pitable retirement. One evening, while 
walking amidft his extenfive plantations, 
accident Jed us to a retired fpot, where the 
fhades were darker and thicker than thofe 
of the furrounding woodlands. On en- 
quiring the reafon why thefe thickets had 
been fo carefully guarded from the ravages 
of the axe, the countenance of my friend 
Rural Tomb.— Account of St. Domingo. 517 
ftances which might have otherwife en-. 
gaged the public attention. The follow- 
ing account of the ceremonies of refpect 
with which he was with the utmoft pro- 
priety received, lately tranf{mitted to us 
from a Correfpondent at Bombay, may: 
perhaps afford a moment’s amufement to 
fome of our readers. 
The Ambaflador Hadjee Khebel Khan, 
after having been daily expected, at length 
arrived, and waited.on board three days, in 
the fpace of which time all the principal 
inhabitants of Bombay went and paid 
their refpeéts to him,’ cn doing which 
there was an appropriate number of guns 
fired at the faid boats reaching the thip 
and at their departure. Thus they kept 
viliting him till the morning of his intend- 
ed landing, and which took place on Sa- 
turday as follows :—The Perfian Ambaf- 
fador in a King’s boat richly decorated, 
in which the Secretary and Perfian inter- 
altered, a tear ftole down his cheeks, he preter alfo were ; fix or feven other boats 
grafped my hand, and with expreffive decorated in rather an inferior ftyle, with 
filence pointed toa {mall ftone half con- his attendants, and a feparate boat with 
ccaled by the underwood, which I imme- 
diately perceived by its infcription had 
been placed there to proteét the remains of 
his venerable parent. 
There is fomething in this idea which 
correfponds with my own feelings. When 
I walk amidft the woods and groves which 
have been reared and foftered by my own 
care, there is a pleafing melancholy in the 
thought of repofing beneath their proteét- 
ing fhade, when the hand that planted 
them lives no more. 
the garrifon band playing all the time the 
proceffion pafled the Company’s  firips, 
Cornwallis and Bombay frigates, which 
fhips faluted him with eighreen guns each. 
They then pafled his Majecity’s thip Cnif- 
one, which fhip allo faluted her as the 
above ; but how fhall I defcribe the hor- 
rid noife that almoft broke the drumflicks 
of our ears when they came to the land- 
ing-place ; it was as bad as Don Quix- 
ote’s being infefted by the devils when he 
went to vifit his Dulcinea. Such noife 
How different an afylum to that’ with ymever I believe was before heard. Four 
which the crowded church-yard prefents 
us; where the avarice of the living confines 
within narrow limits the repofitory of the 
dead ; where the confufed medley of graves 
feems like the wild arrangement of fome 
awful convulfion of the earth. Humanit 
recoils at the thought of lying down 
amidtt fo confufed a multitude, and fighs 
fora peaceful grave! 
Talk not of confecrated ground !—The 
beneficence of my Creator is as extenfive 
as the circle of the univerfe ; nor cana 
{pot be found which does not bear the 
imprefs of his pyovidential care and kind 
recard, A. Witkinson, M.D. 
White Webb Farm, Enfield Chace. 
aE 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
HE unfortunate death of the Perfian 
Aintaffador to the Government of 
Bombay, fuperfeded at the time when the 
intelligence of this was received, all curi- 
Sfity and enquiries re{pecting circum- 
BMonruty Mac, No, 102. 
men (Perfians) with long bugle horns, 
lowing with all their might and main, 
announced his Excellency’s landing, where 
he was met by three of the firft gentlemen 
of the Eftablifhment, and paffed through 
long rows of foldiers, who were all pre 
fent and fallen-in fo as to forma line on 
each fide for him to pais through; the 
garrifon-band playing the whole time till 
he got to the houfe appropriated for his 
ufe. 
— 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
Authentic PARTICULARS of the PRO- 
DUCE, and TRADE of ST. DOMINGO. 
(Tranflated from the French), ' 
HIS ifland is one of the largeft of 
JL the Leeward Iflands, belongs wholly 
to the French fince the ceffion of the Spa- 
nifh part of it to Fiance by the King of 
Spain, at the Treaty of Bafle, qth Ther- 
midor, third year of the. French Re- 
public (July 22,1795). Itis one of the 
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