the soldiery; nothing but military restraint prevented their finishing what the populace had but too successfully begun. Great talk was made by the Spanish officers and government of the satisfaction we should have that the leaders of the mob were arrested; that they were to be burned, hanged, &c. &c., without mercy. They were arrested, it is true; but long before we left they gave them their liberty, from time to time, gradually dismissing the assassins without any sort of punishment; nay, even the serjeant who was known to have fired at Mr. Guillot, and had killed him, who they told us was to be shot, was seen, a week afterwards, at the head of his platoon, escorting the host. LIST OF THE KILLED AND WOUNDED IN THE MASSACRE AT MANILLA, ON THE 9TH OF OCTOBER, 1820. Names of those killed by the Inhabitants of Manilla. Country. Thos. V. Wilson... American... D. Nicholls...... English...... Godfroi ............ French ...... Guillot .... ...... Ditto......... Occupation and Remarks. Midshipman United States navy, formerly of the frigate Macedonia, going home on a sick certificate. Commander of the country ship Merope, of Bengal. Naturalist, sent out by the French Toulon .......... Ditto. ...... Officer of the Imperial French Debur Guards. Duperat............ Ditto......... Merchant, formerly ship Masters. Ditto........ Captain of the French ship Cultivateur, of Nantes. J. Dunsfeldt....... Dane......... Merchant. A. Shaffalitzky Ditto......... Ditto, of the house of Stevenson and Co. Captain of the French ship Alexander. Ditto......... Officer of the same ditto. Ditto French Arnaud Martin Justin.... Boy........ D'Arbell Ditto......... Estoup's servant. Joseph.............. Ditto......... Cook of the Alexander. A sailmaker....... Ditto Ditto Ship L'Orient, died of his wounds. A respectable planter, settled here two or three years since; his scull fractured, hand half cut off, piked on the neck, back, and stomach, two sabre cuts on his head, and other wounds. Hautilman German. French........ Head dreadfully cut, and wounds from pikes on almost every part of his body; limbs terribly cut and bruised. Godfroi ............ Ditto Two terrible wounds on his head, and was left for dead. Baptiste... Armenian.... Very dangerously. Ten seamen, English, at different places, not belonging to any particular ship. The bodies of these unfortunate sufferers were thrown into the streets, treated with every indignity, and were afterwards at night, by order of the government, carried to the sea shore, and there buried in a heap, without the shadow of a religious ceremony, or a sign to mark their graves. Six more persons, Europeans, names unknown. Eighty-five Chinese are known to have been murdered; but it is supposed there were many more. Three Spaniards killed by mistake: the mob, not recognizing them, killed them, supposing them to be foreigners. [Note. This seems to be a mis[Note. This seems to be a mistake-most of the other gentlemen from Manilla assert positively, that not a single Spaniard lost his life, and no Spanish property was plundered, unless what might have been jointly owned by them and the Chinese. The sudden proclamation from the governor, on hearing that the mob had begun to massacre the Chinese, proves that there was Spanish property in danger, for the murdering and plundering of the European strangers seemed to have no effect upon him whatever.] Manifesto of Don Mariano Fernandez de Folgueras, &c. Brigadier of the National Armies, Political Chief and CapVOL. LXIII. tain-General, ad interim, of the Philippine Islands, &c. &c.; addressed to the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands, and in particular to those of the district of Fondo. "While the government was directing its whole attention to the means of re-establishing the state of the public health, and of alleviating the evils which afflicted you; while the zeal and the charity of the religious communities, and of several rich inhabitants, were lavishly bestowing on you food and necessaries; while public prayers supplicated the Eternal to deign to suspend the contagion with which divine justice punished your transgres sions, misled by some ill-disposed persons, you have covered yourselves with opprobrium and igno miny-you have falsified, for the first time, the flattering opinion which the world had conceived of your good qualities, and of your hospitable virtues. have not only filled with consternation all feeling minds, but you have become an object of execration and horror to the nations who do not know the simple and credulous character which distinguishes you, and which the infamous authors of the unhappy days of the 9th and 10th instant, have abused in so criminal a manner. You "A general frenzy was every Y where spread, which inspired your hearts with hatred and thirst of vengeance, and made you trample under foot all laws both human and divine. You have cruelly massacred peaceable and defenceless men. You have committed robberies and iniquities which humanity deplores, and which your children will bewail. In the excess of rage with which the wicked inspired you, you have sacrificed your honour and your fortune; become traitors and enemies to your country, you have stripped it of its honour and its glory. And what was the motive or the pretext for a tumult as dreadful as unforeseen? The foreigners, you say, poison the waters of the rivers and the wells, your food, the air which you breathe! To accomplish this horrible design they purchase, you add, serpents and other venomous reptiles, which they preserve with a cruel care and refined precautions ! "Unhappy people! do you not perceive all the absurdity or ridicule of your error? Do you forget that the waters of the rivers directing continually their course to the sea, the hand of the Almighty alone could poison them? And were it even possible to poison the waters and the food, could there possibly exist numbers capable of such a crime? The blacks of the mountain, the Moors of Tolo and of Mindanao, would blush to conceive so atrocious a project. And can you believe strangers capable of it, who come to enrich us by their capitals and their industry?Men, who are our brethren, who are Christians, who belong to illustrious nations, and whose connexions with us were the source of our continually increasing prosperity? How, in fine, could men whose fortune is founded on your agriculture or your industry attempt to injure you? "I want terms sufficiently strong to express to you all the horror and affliction with which you have filled my soul; yet, as I am ardently desirous of undeceiving you, I hasten to communicate to you the result of the proces verbal, drawn up by M. Licentiate Don Jose Maria Jugo, who has been appointed to examine the pretended poison which has led you astray, and has served the malevolent as a pretext to seduce you. This magistrate, after every possible inquiry, has made me the following declaration: "Most illustrious Sir !-By your official letter of the 13th inst. you require me to transmit you the proces verbal drawn up by the physicians and myself, relative to the phials and other articles which have been delivered to me for the purpose of proving the poisoning of the waters and aliments, to which the inexperienced vulgar gave credit, and to which they attributed the cause of the mortality which took place on the 6th instant. I will give an account of them, that you may be able to acquaint the public with the result of my inquiries. In order to prove the existence of the crime, the Indians have brought me some insects and reptiles of different kinds, among which is a serpent of the common size, of the species called domestic (caseros). This serpent was in a state of dissection. They brought also some shell-fish (coquillages), preserved in glass phials, filled with spirits of wine; a phial containing two grains of muriatic barita; about half a grain of quinquina; and a tin box, about a vara in length, a span in breadth, and six fingers deep, containing insects already in a corrupted state. Lastly, in the house of a woman, whom they accused of serving the French in the execution of the poisoning, there was found some black powder, wrapped in China paper. Every man endowed with a reasonable share of good sense, will comprehend, without the aid of physicians, that the insects, or coquillages, dissected or preserved in spirits of wine, can only contribute to enrich cabinets of natural history. The physicians have merely added, that the insects in a state of corruption, found in the tin box, could have no influence whatever on the contagion. The muriatic barita, according to the same physicians, was a compound of mineral waters; instead of being a poison, it is employed as an efficacious remedy in many disorders. The quinquina (or peruvian bark), is the remedy to which we have all had recourse against the contagion. "The physicians have also declared that this black powder, found in the house of the woman above mentioned, has nothing poisonous in it; that it is probably either a kind of mineral ethiopa, or a carbonic substance of the vegetable kingdom, which serves for various purposes in medicine. After this explanation, your lordship may see that the poisoning imputed to the French is an absurd tale, purposely invented to mislead the vulgar. There is, nevertheless, no doubt but the pretended poisoning had its origin in the ignorance of the Indians; but it is no less certain, that wretches, abusing their ignorance, induced them to commit the robberies and murders on the disastrous days of the 9th and 10th instant. An incontestable proof of this truth is, that after the events of the first day, when those who thought themselves injured by the French must have satiated their revenge, they proceeded, on the day following, to plunder the houses and magazines of the Chinese, pretending that one or more Chinese had been arrested who were concerned in the poisoning, a circumstance which had not been hinted at before. "Such are the explanations resulting from the proces verbal of my inquiries; I will only add a word to convince the ignorant public that the accusation of poisoning reposed on no reasonable basis; it is, that among the three paper books brought me by the Indians, and which were doubtless taken from the house of the French naturalist, I found one containing drawings of the birds, fish, and shells of our islands; which ought to prove to the most ignorant and the most superstitious, that the collection of insects and animals made by the French, had no other object than the promotion of the science of natural history. "Inhabitants of the Philippine Islands, and you in particular, inhabitants of Fondo, behold yourselves undeceived! Do not lose the hope of meriting the clemency of our Catholic monarch; but exert yourselves, my children, to merit the oblivion of your errors and of your crimes, by profound repentance, delivering to justice the wicked men who seduce and deceive you; restore the articles stolen to the persons appointed to receive them; purify your consciences by declaring the authors of the murders, those who hurried you to them by false orders and by lies, in order to render you the blind instruments of their iniquities; and you, laborious inhabitants of La Pampanga, of Hocos, and of Pangasinan, do not lose the fruits of your toils, of your progress in agriculture, and in the arts of industry; do not suffer yourselves to be misled by the enemies of your welfare, by those perverse vagabonds, who, jealous of your riches, and consumed with envy, aim only at your ruin. Fix upon them an eye of the most watchful scrutiny, and suffer not any idler of the shores of Fondo and of Banaisay to reside among you, without being acquainted with his conduct. If it is suspicious, deliver him to the protecting arm of justice, which will not fail to punish him, and take proper measures of safety. "Unhappy people of Binondo! you whose town has been the theatre of the most horrible tragedy, and who have covered yourselves with opprobrium and blood, make known to the whole universe the innocence of your good inhabitants, by delivering up to the law the chiefs of the revolt-those perfidious enemies of God and man. Public justice, the character of the nation stained, and its honour outraged, all demand their odious heads. Let no consideration whatever protect them; this is the only means to wipe out the blot of infamy which has just been cast on the Philippines and their unfortunate inhabitants.” CORONATION OF HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY GEORGE THE FOURTH.-On the 6th May, 1820, a royal proclamation was issued from Carlton House, declaring "His majesty's pleasure touching his royal coronation;" and appointing the 1st of August for the ceremony: This was accompanied by another proclamation, nominating commissioners to hear and determine the petitions and claims of those persons who, "by ancient customs and usages, as also in regard of divers tenures of sundry manors, lands, and other hereditaments, were bound to perform certain services on the day of coronation." Under the authority of the latter proclamation, "The court of Claims," as it is termed, assem-. bled on Thursday, the 18th of May, in the painted chamber, where they received various petitions and decided many claims. The commissioners again met by adjournment on three subsequent days-namely, the 26th of May, the 8th of June, and the 16th of June. But, in the mean time, in consequence of the arrival of the queen, and the proceedings instituted against her, it was resolved to postpone the ceremony of the coronation. The court of Claims ceased to meet, and the works, which were carrying on in Westminster-hall, Westminster-abbey, and Cotton-garden, were suspended. In the beginning of May last, the renewal of the labours in |