and a numerous train of Members of Parliament, including thofe of the Select Committee of the House of Commons for the Improvement of the Port of London.

Soon after two o'clock the proceffion arrived at the Works, where Lord Carrington and many other diftinguifhed perfonages of both fexes had ailembled to be prefent at the ceremony,

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manner:

The stone had been previously prepared to receive two glass bottles, one of which contained the feveral coins (gold, filver, and copper) of his present Majefty's reign; and in the other, the following Infcription, and tranflation thereof in Latin, were placed:

Of this Range of Buildings, Conftructed, together with the adjacent Docks,

At the Expence of public-fpirited
Individuals,

Under the Sanction of a provident
Legislature,

And with the liberal Co-operation of the Corporate Body of the City of London,

For the diftinct Purpose
Of complete Security and ample
Accommodation

(hitherto not afforded)

To the Shipping and Produce of the . Weft Indies at this wealthy Port, THE FIRST STONE WAS LAID, On Saturday the Twelfth Day of July, A. D. 1800,

By the concurring Hands of The Right Hon. Lord Loughborough, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain;

The Right Hon. William Pitt, First Lord Commiffioner of his Majesty's Treafury, and Chancellor of his

Majefty's Exchequer ;
George Hibbert, Efq. the Chairman,
And

Robert Milligan, Efq. the Deputy
Chairman,

Of the Weft India Dock Company;
The two former confpicuous in the
Band of thofe illuftrious Statemen
Who in either Houfe of Parliament

have been zealous to promote, The two latter diftinguished among thofe chofen to direct, AN UNDERTAKING Which, under the Favour of God, fhall contribute Stability, Increase, and Ornament, to BRITISH COMMERCE.

his other navigations lykewife hath he fayled thorough all the Levant feas every way and ben in the chiefe iflandes of the inland fea called Mediterraneum mare vidz. Rhodes Malta Sicil Cipris and Candy with diver's others And in a fecond journey to mare Cafpiu faylinge over that fea an other way and landinge in Armenia at Darbent a citie of Alexander the Greate his buyldinge and from thence traveylinge thorough divers countreys even to the court of the greate Sophy he delyvered letters unto him from the Queenes Majeftie that now is and remayned in the faid Sophyes court the fpace of VII monthes Allo into a greater nomber more of countreys hath he traveyied then may eately be called to mynde or in this place be well rehearfed not without greate perilles and dangers fundrey tymes. And not onely traveyled into theim but hath alfo fojourned in the courtes of meny of the greate princes of whome he hath not onely ben well entreteyned but alfo difmiffed with much favour and with freendly letters of immunyte and faufguarde wherof fome we have feene and peruted as a letter of recomendacion from th' Emperour of Rufcia to the Sophy and other princes a faut conduct from the greate Turke: a letter of commendacion from Afinicana kynge in Tartaria and letters teftimoniall of his beinge at Jherufalem, &c. being all evident tokens of his vertue honefty

of

which his fayde travieli tendinge allwayes to the tervice of his prince and Countrey (a perfect proofe of his vertue and proweffe) and for a perpetuall declaration of the worthyneffe of the laide

Anthony Jenkinfon we the kinges of armes aforefayde by power and authoryte to us committed by letters patentes under the greate feale of Englande together with th' affent and confent of the high and mighty prince Thomas Duke of Norfolke Erle Marefchall of Englande have affigned gyven and graunted unto the fayde Anthony Jenkinson these armes and creaft followinge that is to fay The fielde afure a fece wave argent in chief three ftarres golde. Upon a heaulme on a torce argent and alure a lea horfe comonly called a Neptune's horfe gold and afure Mantelid gueules doubled argent as more plainly appeerith depicted in this margent which armes and creaft and every part and parcell therof we the fayde garter Clarencieulx and Norroy kinges of armes do by thefe prefentes ratify confirme give and graunt upto the fayde Anthony Jenkinfon and his pof teryte for ever and he the fame armes and creaft to use beare and fhewe at all tymes and forever heerafter at his liberty and pleafure without the impedyment let or interruption of any parton or parfons. IN WITNESSE wherof we the jayd kinges of armes have figned thefe prefentes with our handes and fett therunto our feverall feales of armes x1111th day of February in the yere of our Lorde God a thoufande fyve hundred fixty eight.

N confequence of certain intelligence I brought from the Eastward by Captain Shepherdion, of the Venus, that a part of the crew of an English fhip of war (fuppofed to be his Majefty's fhip the Refistance), which had the misfortune to be blown up in the Straits of Barca tome months before, had been picked up by fume pirate prows and carried to Lingan,

where the furvivors ftill exifted in a state of flavery, Major Taylor, commanding the garrison of Malacca, immediately difpatched a prow to that fland, for the relief of thofe unfortunate men.

In this prow, fuitably appointed with fupplies, he tent a fepoy, who, being well acquainted with the Malay tongue, was charged with a letter to the Sultan of

Lingan;

Lingan; entreating that Prince to affift in the most effectual meafures for the recovery and releafe of fuch of the Refitance's fhip's company as he might be able to difcover in this calamitous fituation.

On the 5th of December the prow returned to Malacca, bringing with her one feaman, late of the Refiftance's crew, from the declaration of whom the tollowing Narrative is taken.

The detail given by this man appears entitled to the greater thare of credence, as no deviation from the circumitances related in his story was to be found upon the several interrogatories put to him from time to time afterwards; as it comes very near to the floating report which Captain Shepherdfon had of the Malays at Rhio; and as it coincides remarkably in many of its principal points with that which had already comme round to Malacca from Pinang, as there related by his three comrades, who had not lefs providentially arrived in fafety at that jettlement.

As the complexion of the feveral unpleasant fituations, if not actual diftreffes, into which the Refittance was eventually cast; and as the fad difalter itfelt of that ill fated fhip feems to derive much of its tincture, or may perhaps be deemed to have originated, with the gale which the encountered almost a year ago in the Pacific Ocean, on her way to China; her tory is therefore brought down from a date more remote than it may probably appear of fufficient intereft to the public that it otherwile should.

In fuch a cafe, candour will yet be diposed to make due allowances for (if fuch it should prove) a too minute and circumftantial account of whatever might feem, though remotely, to affect or concern the lols of so valuable a Commander, officers, and ship's company, as perished in the Refistance, when the Recorder of this mournful Narrative (taken by himfelf from the lips of the perfon here mentioned) adds, that while his country has to lament, as it must deeply feel, the miffortune of that intelligent, gallant, and worthy Commander, it is not lets his to mix the tear of private friendship and fincere efteem for that officer in the individual; and for more than one active and deferving Character besides, ferving with him, whole memory will ever remain not lefs dear than their cruel fate is to be regretted.

Thomas Scott, feaman, aged 22 years, a native of Wexford in Ireland, relates on examination as follows:

That he formerly belonged to the Chesterfield South Sea Whaler; from which he remained at Timor Befar for three years in the Dutch employ, till the capture of that place, when he entered on board the Resistance.

That the met with a heavy gale of wind on the of laft December, which continued for four days unabated; and in which the proved fo leaky that her chain pumps were kept conftantly at work, night and day; fo that in order to lighten her they were obliged to heave a number of her upper deck guns overboard.

She then bore away for the Philippines, intending, as he believes, afterwards to fail for Malacca. Being in want of wood, water, and provisions, Captain Pakenham tried the expedient of hoitting Spanish colours, as he cruifed along thore, till he came to anchor nearly within reach of the guns of Antego. The Deputy Governor of this town, and the Captain of a Spanish brig then lying at anchor in the Bay, accordingly came off to them; but difcovering their miftake when too late, upon endeavouring to efcape, were foon brought back and put aboard by a boat from the Refiftance. Upon their affurances that they would do their utmost to have the wants of Captain Pakenham amply supplied, he generously fuffered them to return, however, the fame evening to the fhore. No part of thele fair promiles being fulfilled, nor the likelihood of it, at five o'clock the next evening, Captain Pakenham fent his third Lieutenant, Mr. Cuthbert, in the cutter, with an armed party, to cut out the Spanish brig; in which attempt they fucceeded, though fired upon finartly by the guns of the fort within range of which she had anchored. Scott remem bers this event to have happened on Christmas Day,

The Refiftance and her prize failed from thence, immediately after, for Balambangan; at which place they arrived in four days. Having wooded and watered here, and gotten a partial fupply of rice and live ftock, the ship continuing leaky, with blowing weather, Capt. P. and the prize set sail from this place for the Celebes; and arrived in about 18 days at Limby, near Munadoo, on that island. The fame evening that he an chored here he difpatched the brig to Amboyna, to fignify his diftreis for

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fupplies; in confequence of which, the Bombay frigate was tent off from thence, on the arrival of the brig, to his relief. After staying a week or more at Limby, and having with fome difficulty collected what he could provide for the remaining part of his voyage to Amboyna, he weighed anchor, and failed from that place, falling in with the Bombay frigate and the fupplies fent him on board her, in feven days after, off the island of Booroo.

Having arrived at Amboyna, and remained there about two months repairing and refitting, the Refillance failed to Booroo; where refreshments and fteck, as well as wood and water, were more abundantly and conveniently to be procured than at the former place. From Booroo the departed for Banda about a fortnight after, but fpringing a leak off Amboyna, the was obliged to put back again to the former island.

Early in July the failed from thence again; and running clofe along the fhore of Jaca, took a Dutch brig off the town of Seirabi, which, being in ballatt and of little value, was releafed the fare night. The Refiftance next iteered her courte for the Straits of Banca, which having made in about five days, the there fell in with a fleet of about 14 pirate prows at anchor under the land of Banca, each capable of containing 50 or 60 men. In order to board and examine one of the largest of thefe, Captain P. manned three of his boats; but the Malays in the prow for fome time refuted permiffion to Lieutenants Cuthbert and Mackay to come on board them. As thefe officers, how. ever, perfifted in accomplishing their cr. ders, the Malays at length iuffered it without oppofition, but it was found impoffible to effect their purpose of fearching them for Dutch property and papers; for fuch was the ferment among the Malays on beard, that to avoid the confequence with which they were threatened for infifting on this examination, they were obliged to enfure their fatety by a hafty retreat over the fide, and return to their own fhip. Capt. P. refented this conduct by the discharge of fome of his twelves, which toon dif. perfed the pirates, and fent them into thoal water under the land.

Having weighed anchor about 9 o'clock next morning, and cut out a Malay floop that had been captured by the pirates on her way from Batavia, and which was left at her anchors when they deferted her

the preceding night, Capt. P. proceeded with her on his voyage down the Straits. As the floop was prefumed to be Dutch property, the papers belonging to which her Malay Captain was fufpected of having deftroyed, and if condemned would have been of fome value, being laden with cloth, falt, and other merchandize, he was detained till the evening atter the fecond day from her re capture, when it was intended that her commander (ftill on board the Refiftance) fhould be restored to his vellel, and herfelf releated. With a view to this, the Refiftance came to an anchor in the Straits of Banca at an early hour in the evening on the 23d of July, as the loop had at that time fallen to much altern as to be entirely out of fight; and the latter joined, accordingly, about one o'clock next morning, dropping anchor under the ftern of the Refiftance.

The officer of the deck, Lieut. Cuthbert, hailing the floop in order to put her commander on board, but not being heard, then reconciled the Malay Captain to this fhort further detention by the affurance that he fhould depart for his veffel with the morning's dawn: - a dawn, alas! neither was to lee.-For Scott, the narrator, fleeping at the lar. board fide of the quarter deck (as it was fo fine a night that he did not wish to retire to his birth below), was fuddenly awakened by a fierce blaze, that feized his clothes and hair, fucceeded in the inftant by a tremendous explosion, from the hock of which, he conjectures, he became utterly fenfele!s for five minutes or more.

He computes this dreadful accident to have taken place about 4 o'clock in the morning (24th July 1798), from the day appearing about an hour after he was blown up; but how it did or could hap pen, circumftanced as the ship then was, he profeffes himself totally unable to offer an opinion, or hazard a conjecture.

When he recovered a little, he found himself half fuffocated with water, floating and itruggling with twelve others in the fame fituation.-Small remainder of the fine fhip's company to which they had jutt belonged. He made fhift with thete to reach the netting of the ship on the ftarboard fide, which juit remained above the water.

At the dawn of the day the people belonging to the floop, then not out of hail aitern, who must eally have difcovered the condition of the wreck, and

heard