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By the Sinbad schooner we have receiv-   ed two more Sydney papers, from which  

the following articles of intelligence are copied for the information of our Readers :   "The Mauritius Gazette of the 20th of De-    

cember last, contains, among its extracts from

the Calcutta Gazettes, the following lamenta-     ble article of information:—"it is with ex-     treme regret we have to notice the death of Captain H. C. FITZCLARENCE, of His Ma-   jesty's 22d Dragoons, and Aide-de-Camp to       His Excellency the Commander in Chief. The      

accounts of this melancholy event reached us, via Hyderabad. He died at Allahabad on   the 3d ultimo, of a fever.

The Magnet, Captain Vine, left the Isle of France the 8th of February, at which time His Majesty's 22d and 56th regiments remained in a good state of health, which was happily the case throughout the island.

Accounts state that the Kangaroo, Lieut. JEFFREYS commander, was at Batavia shortly before the Greyhound's arrival there, and that Mr. Garnham Blaxcell died there; as did also, John O'Hearne and P. Donnally, who went from hence for England in that vessel.

The Madras Courier of October 7th states upon authority, that the united forces of the

South American Independants are 12,900 in- fantry, and 6950 cavalry, making a total of 18,950 men; while the Royal Forces amount- ed only to 1623 Spaniards, and 4000 natives, who are denominated creoles, being only 6620 men altogether.

On Monday last (April 6) arrived from En- gland, the ship Batavia, Capt. Lamb of Lon- don, with 220[?] male prisoners, in charge of a detachment of the 34th and 46th Regiments, under command of Lieut. Elgee of the 34th.

On Monday also arrived the Magnet, a three masted vessel, Captain Vine, from the Isle of   France ; of which colony His Excellency Ma- jor-General Hall is the present Governor, ad   interim, Governor Farquhar having proceeded to England at the end of December, on leave

of His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT. We are happy to learn from Capt. Vine, that the town of Port Louis was rapidly rising from its ashes but would continue a free port

not longer than the 12th of March ult. unless an expected arrival should in the interim take place, of the term being lengthened to 1820.

In Macao Roads a barbarous murder had recently taken place of an American ship's company, by some Chinese. She was laden with opium and treasure, and while one of the desperadoes amused the commander with the delivery to him of a letter, the seamen were surprised, and most of them murder-   ed, the intention of the assailants being the plunder of the ship ; several were literally and wantonly cut into small pieces, & but for the escape of the second mate, providen- tally effected through the cabin window, the

plunder would have been completed, with-   out probable discovery ; four of the villains

were afterwards apprehended & beheaded ; but before they were put to death, the Man- darins enquired of the surviving officer

whether he would wish them to be cue up   alive or not, as they acted with his country-

men and friends, to which the officer of

course replied in the negative, being under   the necessity at the same time to explain, that the loss of life was by his laws confid- ered a sufficient atonement for offences, without exposing the wretched sufferers to corporeal tortures.

The information received by the Active, wholly concerns the success of the million to the Society Islands and New Zealand.     At the former, the expectation long enter-   tained of their possible subduction to a state   of civilization becomes every day more and

more confirmed; a great majority of the     natives, as we are informed, can read, and

delight in reading the various tracts printed in their own dialect, that are prepared for them. Being furnished by nature with the means of subsistence without labour, they bestow much of their time in reading, and even in writing ; in which latter branch they correspond with each other on the leaf of the plantain and banana. There are very few families without one or more readers.

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