Death Of The Queen Of The...
i e have this day to recortt the death of Queeni Tameha. nalu, cOnsort of Tanmehaineba tht Second, King of the andwich Islands. She departed this life on Thursdav "ning. at ha1f-past 6 o'clock, anil to the last was quite ensib2e'and composed. The King took bis last farewel ,bout 10 oclock ii the morning, previously to which she nformed himn that she was sensible she was dying, and was uite resigned. Their separation was truly affeting. We learn that the immediate cause of her death was in- mlrmation of the langs. During her illness she was at- ended by Sir H. Halford, Dr. Ley, Dr. Holland, and M1r. ?cregrine. The King, since her denmise, has expressed his tlastacLion at tie attention shie received. T'he following official statemient has been drawn up by he physicialns who attended:- " Tile Queen of the Sandwich Islandsi depr,ted this life about lalf-lt5six this e,;enlng, without much apparent suffering, and in loetession of he r senses to the last moment. The King. in the midst of this deep sorrow, manifests a finn- e"s of mfind which has penetrated every body about bin, with a feel. ing of t-Pect. Though very anxious to express his grief in the rnaancr of his countrv, and to show the marks of deference which *M eoully paid to tihe dead there, he submits, Withi good setse and psatience, to erey snggestion vwhich our habits dictate. . We have every rean to believe, that his Mlajesty's anxiety ani depression have aggrav=ted all the symptoms of his disese, which, bu: fo. this cauise, might ere now have terminated prosper- ously; but wte h;o}e iii a &iy or twvo that he will be better. (Signed) " HENRY HALFORD " HENRY HOLI,AND, "HlUGhIS LEY. Thursday evcrning, July 8,1824." The sepulIchral rites observed by thesc i4landers. and WIsich are alluded to in the above report, seemn, according t the &accouits of all travellers, to be inrolved in consi- derable mysterv. Campbell says the badies of the dead are ahlyws tlposeil cr secretly. anld he never could learn where they were iiterred. The Queen, he tells us, preserved the hones of her father camefuilly wrapped up in a piece of cloth. Wvhen she slept in her own hliuse, thev were placed by her side; aar in her abseice, they Wtvre laid on a (eat her- bedl, which she hatl received from the captain of a ship, and 'which was usedi for that purpose only. When Camp- bll aswked the reason of this custom, she replied, " It was bcauseshe loved her father so dearly." MIariner also saw thts2 bones, and on inquiry found that this was not a cus- tom of thelQuten only, buta common practice among these islanders. EA TI! OF TJB QUEN, OP THE SANDWICH E ISLANDS.