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both parties have a meaning of equal 
value. They speak with an apparent 
affection of things, the reality of which 
excites in them doubtful apprehen- 
sions. 
There is another class of sincere and 
open, if not tender-hearced people, who 
thoroughly convinced that whatever 1s, is 
right, profess to take things as they find 
them, without any officious intermedling, 
and so sit down cheerfully, and without 
scruple, to the table which nature has 
spread for them. They talk, indeed, of 
compassion by rote, out of complacence, 
or from custom; but if they ever really 
feel such an impression, it 1s but transi- 
tory, and expires in an instant, or gives 
place to the first motion of interest or 
convenience. These children of nature 
are of all times and all countries. 
They see every thing through the pure 
medium of interest. They are the 
advocates cf torture in punishments, 
of rendering innocent children responsi- 
ble for the crimes of their parents, of sa- 
crificing an admiral or general for an er- 
ror in judgment, or even for some signal 
stroke of ill fortune, in order to stimulate 
others ta acts of courage or desperation. 
They are provided with the most plausi- 
ble arguments in favour of the perpetual 
imprisonment of debtors. They ever ad- 
here with a close, inbred affection, to the 
cruel side of the dilemma, reversing the 
ancient, humane, and beautiful position, 
betier thut many guilty should escape, than 
one innocent perish. They esteem the 
misfortuges and sufferings of one part of 
animal nature, as the legitimate profit or 
pleasure of the other part, and are led 
by anatural propension, or stoical apathy, 
‘to contemplate the sufferings of men or 
animals, with even @ degree of satisfac- 
tion. The distresses of the slave and 
the poor they will not hear of, far less 
the sufferings of animals. Such is their 
fot; to submit and suffer with patience, 
their duty. Even the very idea of an at- 
tempt to alleviate the sutferings of brute 
animals, however unnecessary they may 
be, is treated with ridicule and opposi- 
tion, and represented as the cffspring of a 
morbid and dangerous sensibility, which 
ought to be repressed. - Opposition is car- 
ried to the length of even giving fresh en- 
couragement to acts of cruelty, that the 
‘human heart may be kept steeled, and 
not shrink from the striking-place of in- 
terest. 
‘(To be continued.) 
Journal of a Voyage m the Indian Seas. 
Of Timerants (07 os 
fJan.t, 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
JOURNAL of a VOYAGE performed in the 
INDIAN SEAS, 0 MADRAS, BENGAL, 
CHINA, &c., &c., in HIS MAJESTY’S 
SHIP CAROLINE, in the YEARS 1803-4-3. 
Communicated by an oF FIcER of that sHIP. 
(Continued from p. 336.) 
N the 15th we anchored for a few 
hours in Malacca roads, and then 
pursued our course through the straits 
for Prince of Wales’s Island, where we 
arrived on the 20th of January, after a 
remarkably quick passage of only fifteen 
days from Lintin to China. 
Prince of Wales’s island, called by the 
natives Pulo or Poolo Penang, from a 
Malay word signifying Areca-nut and Be- 
tei, lies on the fifth parallel of north la- 
titude, and in 100° 20' 15” (George-town) 
of east longitude, at the entrance of the 
straits of Malacca. wey ea. 
It 1s somewhat in the shape of an ob- 
long square, about sixteen milesin length, 
and from six to eight in breadth, distant 
between two and three miles from the 
Malay shore. 
It was given to Captain Light by the 
King of Queda, and first settled in 1786. 
The greater part of the island is occupied 
bya lofty irregular ridge of, mountain (run- 
ning in the direction of the island, north 
and south), the northern extremity of 
whichis by far the highest; and here they 
have erected a signal-house and several 
bungalows, _ 
The whole of this ridge is covered with 
a forest of trees of immense size; and be- 
tween its eastern base and the sea, facing 
the coast of Queda, there is a level slip 
of land, from two to four miles in breadth, 
and ten or twelve miles long. ‘This is 
well cultivated and laid out in gardens, 
plantations of pepper, betel, areca, cocoa- 
nut trees, &c. intersected in all directions 
with pleasant carriage-roads, whose sides 
are lined with a variety of shrubs and trees 
that are in perpetual verdure. The whole 
of this space is’ interspersed with villas 
and bungalows, where the Europeans oc- 
casionally retire to enjoy the country air, 
as a relaxation after business in town. 
On the north-eastern point of this slip 
of Jand are situated Fort-Cornwallis and 
George-town, called by the natives Tan- 
jong Painaique. 
This island may contain of European 
settlers and their dependants, Malays, Su- 
matrans, Chinese, &c. . 11,000 souls. 
1,000 do. 
nr eee 
Total . 12,000 t 
For — 
