Thursday, 24.—­The Wanderer, transport, Lieutenant Young, agent, from Deptford, arrived this afternoon, with stores for this and Ascension island; and in the evening, the sloop Lucy, from Sierra Leone, with provisions for the settlement.

Friday, 25.—­This afternoon, the two prizes, Ou Voador and Elizabeth, sailed for adjudication at Sierra Leone.  The African left this evening for Old Calabar.

Saturday, 26.—­This evening the Victoria sailed to blockade the Old Calabar river.

Monday, 28.—­The French captain of the Elizabeth, having offered his services to superintend one of the working parties of black labourers on shore, commenced the performance of that duty this morning.  The last of the two horses brought from Sierra Leone, died to-day from a disease in the mysenteric glands.  The Munroe, an American whaling brig, arrived this evening.  Two men, who were taken ill with fever, were ordered on board the Eden, and there were still five of the Plymouth artificers ill with the fever on shore; one of whom was in a state of delirium.  We had likewise several seamen suffering from fever on board.

Wednesday, 30.—­Ware, a fine boy, about fourteen years of age, whom Captain Owen had appointed to attend me, was unfortunately taken ill with fever to-day, which gave me great uneasiness.

Thursday, May, 1.—­Went on shore soon after daylight, with the working parties, attended by a new servant, and returned to breakfast.  Went on shore again before dinner, this being my accustomed routine.  I occasionally remained on shore the whole day, and sometimes at night; but I preferred sleeping on the deck of the Eden, where, on the top of the Captain’s skylight, I weathered out many a tornado.  In this situation, I was tolerably protected by the sloped awning from the violence of the wind and the heavy rain, by which it is always accompanied:  but even a wetting, now and then, would have been preferable to sleeping in a close cabin, between decks, where, in spite of every precaution, the heat was intolerable.

Saturday, 3.—­We have had either a tornado, or heavy rain, with thunder and lightning, at some part of every twenty-four hours since I last noticed the weather.  Another of the artificers departed this life.  We had cucumbers from the Garden of Eden for dinner.

The following is a list of the seeds that have been sown there by the order of Captain Owen, who gave it its poetical appellation.

Many of them were planted in December, 1827.

  Early York Cabbage. 
  Emperor ditto. 
  American Cabbage. 
  Custard Apple. 
  Sour Sop. 
  Sierra Leone Plum. 
  Tomato. 
  Orchilla Weed, from St. Vincent’s. 
  Do.  St. Antonio. 
  Do.  The Cape. 
  Do.  Madeira. 
  Fruit Stones, from England. 
  Canna, or Indian Shot. 
  Large and small Pepper. 
  Balsams. 
  Pride of Barbadoes.