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NARRATIVEOF AVOYAGETO SENEGALIN 1816.

No person can read this Interesting Narrative without being deeplyaffected by the perils and misfortunes to which the small remnant ofpersons, who were saved from this deplorable Shipwreck, were exposed. Ofone hundred and fifty persons embarked upon the raft, and left to theirfate, only fifteen remained alive thirteen days afterwards; but of thesefifteen, so miraculously saved, life constituted the sole possession, beingliterally stripped of every thing. At Paris, some benevolent individualshave recently opened a subscription for their relief. Should any persons,in this country, feel disposed to contribute to this humane object, Mr.Colburn will feel great pleasure in becoming the medium for transmittingtheir subscriptions to the unfortunate sufferers.

NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO SENEGAL IN 1816;

UNDERTAKEN BY ORDER OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT,
          COMPRISING AN ACCOUNT
                 OF THE
         Shipwreck of the Medusa,
       THE SUFFERINGS OF THE CREW,
AND THE VARIOUS OCCURRENCES ON BOARD THE RAFT,
    IN THE DESERT OF ZAARA, AT ST. LOUIS,
        AND AT THE CAMP OF DACCARD.
          TO WHICH ARE SUBJOINED
   OBSERVATIONS RESPECTING THE AGRICULTURE
                 OF THE
         WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA,
 FROM CAPE BLANCO TO THE MOUTH OF THE GAMBIA.
                   BY
           J.B. HENRY SAVIGNY,
                  AND
           ALEXANDER CORRÉARD.

ILLUSTRATED WITH THE NOTES OF M. BREDIF AND EMBELLISHED WITHA PLAN OF THE RAFT, AND A PORTRAIT OF KING ZAIDE.

1818.

ADVERTISEMENT.

At the moment that we publish a Second Edition of our Narrative, we learnthat Mr. Sevigny [A] is going to publish a pretended Account, by Mr.Richefort, an auxiliary Ex-Officer of the French Marine.

Our readers will not have forgotten a certain pretended sea-officer who waspartly the cause of our misfortunes, and who, when on board the Medusa,gave such unhappy advice to the captain, who still more unhappily, followedit too closely; well; this ex-officer, this fatal auxiliary, whoconducted the frigate upon the bank of Arguin, is no other than Mr.Richefort!

Having gone on board the governor's boat, he remained a stranger to thedisasters which he had partly caused, and consequently, knew nothing ofwhat passed, either upon the raft, or on board the boats which stranded, orin the desert.

We make no farther remarks; the public will judge of his account and ours.

CORRÉARD AND SAVIGNY.

[A] This Mr. Sevigny must not be confounded with Mr. Savigny, one of theauthors of this narrative.

This Mr. Sevigny is one of the directors of an anonymous company, which oneof the King's Ministers has recommended in the following manner:

"The keeper of the seals has informed the magistrates, that an anonymouscompany, which had formed itself under the name of the ColonialPh