Saturday, 5.—­The Eden’s tender, Victoria, returned from the Old Calabar this afternoon.  A heavy tornado this evening, but as it is almost a daily occurrence, it is scarcely worth noticing.

Sunday, 6.—­The Eden’s tender, Horatio, with Captain Harrison on board, returned this afternoon from a week’s trading voyage for stock round the island.  A seaman belonging to the Eden was drowned through carelessness, in upsetting a small boat on leaving the Horatio.  The Victoria sailed this evening, under the command of Lieutenant Robinson, to blockade several slave-vessels that were daily expected to sail from the Old Calabar river.

Monday, 7.—­The armourer of the Eden died this afternoon.  I had been myself affected with feverish symptoms during the last fortnight, but, although so many persons were dying around me, I still maintained my cheerful spirits, to which circumstance I attribute the restoration of my health, which was now daily improving.  I mention this solely for the sake of impressing upon others the importance which cannot be often urged, of not giving way to despondency in this insalubrious climate.

Thursday, 10.—­The Fame, brigantine, arrived here on her way from the Camaroon river, bound to Liverpool with palm-oil, which afforded us an opportunity of sending letters to England:  she sailed on Saturday, on which day the Horatio filled, and sunk in Clarence Cove while in the act of heaving down.  This event occasioned much trouble, and it required the assistance of two vessels to get her up again.  The weather had been very unsettled throughout the past week, with a tornado during some part of each day or night.

Monday, 14.—­The African sailed for the island of Bimbia to procure as much stock and vegetables as they could obtain.  I regretted that a temporary indisposition prevented me from going, occasioned by a large boil in a highly irritable state, which is very common on this coast.

Tuesday, 15.—­Mr. Mercer, midshipman of the Eden, who had sailed from hence in the Victoria, returned to-day in charge of the Elizabeth schooner under French colours, with upwards of 100 slaves on board.  He had taken possession of her from the Eden’s pinnace, while Lieutenant Robinson in the Victoria, went in chase of a suspicious vessel in another direction.

The Elizabeth was said to be from Guadaloupe, but from the testimony of her crew, and other circumstances, it appeared, that she had only got her French captain and papers from thence, and that she had sailed from St. Thomas’s, under Spanish colours, where she engaged a part of her crew; the rest, with her Spanish captain, having previously joined her at Porto Rico.  The Spaniard, who acted as captain in the outward bound voyage, remained at Old Calabar, to go back in another vessel, while he sent the Frenchman, with false papers, for the voyage home, knowing that the Eden’s tender and boat were on the look-out for him at the mouth of the river.