DEATH OF MUNGO PARK. 415 been at Timbuctoo in I8O7, and had heard of two white men, who came from the sea, having been near that place the year before ; and that they sold beads, and had no money to purchase grain. This person added, that they went down the Nile to the eastward, and that general report stated that they died of the climate. There can be little doubt but the txvo white men here alluded to were Mr. Park and his companion. Lieutenant Martyn, who were at Sandsanding in Nov. 1805, and could, in the following year, have been near Timbuctoo. Sandsanding is the place from whence the last dispatches were dated by Mr. Park ; and Amadi Fatouma, who was his guide afterwards, was sent to learn his fate, and returned with an account of Mr. Park being drowned. The statement of this person was, however, of such a nature as to excite suspicions of its correctness ; and hopes were entertained that Mr. Park had not met with such an untimely fate. Fourteen years have now almost elapsed since the date of his last dispatches ; and this circumstance is of itself sufficient to demonstrate, that he is to be added to the catalogue of those who have perished in their attempts to explore the interior of Africa. — Englishman.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH STATESMAN, Sir ; — Seeing in your Paper of yesterday a translation of the Arabic manuscript respecting