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It I , i ~~ -. it, 1.. i , 1 •71 • r • .4 . • 'Si if SIERRA LEO ROYAL GAZETTES. AND 611.NERAL IMPROVEMENT, IiETOWN, DECEMBER 19, 1818. 1,1 resuming ow Publication, and endeavouring to bring up the meu of intelligence accrued during its heal ri, etion, no pai t of our duty is so agreeable as that of giving an account of those improvements the pee eress of which has been uninterrupted, and the present advanced state snilicient to excite general caulzetioe as .veil as to reileet the highest credit on those ny whose ability and 'exec eons the work has bee t accomplished. In the opeoe of commencing with the improve meets of the town or with those of the interior, with those on the shore ar those on our wore distant line of settle:fleas, we give the preference to the latter, because they have been achieved by the labour of libeiyited Nerrrocs alone, tattler the direction of their respective Ministers end Saiperintendants. It is but a just and kroeful tribute of acknowledgment to the roe al munificence and national liberality, which pur sued with sagnu. h co't and perseverance the gene rous object of the deliverance and civilization of the once devoted victims of barbarism and bondage:— and we can anticipate with delight the sublime gra tification which the friend!: and supporters of this great cause will derive from seeing, so soon, such excellent practical confirmations of their hopes and reasonings--such benign fruits of their zeal and exer tions. ‘e e trust, that. as Pew/epee= has blessed most of me illustrious leaders of that great cause with length of days to behold this heavenly harvest of their toil and deviation —they all, and if we might name aly one in particular, Mr. Wilberforce, espe cially, may be long preserved to enjoy the permanent and ccinsrantiv increasing g lory which must result from so ample an.: solid a commencement of social and religious good as these liberated Negroes exhibit in the bosom of Africa—in the favoured seat of that vast engine of African degradation and desolation— the Slave Trade. At Iteeen , 's Town, (formerly called Hogbrook, from the r. ul tude of wild hogs frequenting the beautiful ea an that runs through it,? the young men settled there haee furnished an example which will long be admired, and -.,0t easily 'surpassed. They have built two excellent stone bridges over their wa ters, one of them thirteen and a half feet square, and the rise of the arch eleven and a half, and they have brought a road by a new line, avoiding the most steep descents and acclivities of the hills, without much extending the course, as far as Leicester Moun tain, whence it is to be continued towards Freetown, by the youths of the Establishment formed there un der the patronage of the Church Missionary Society, aided by the first-liberated Negro Settlers, who are long fixed there in comfort and independence, at tained by respectable industry, profiting from good instruction. The road made by the people of Re gent's Town is two rods wide throughout, solid, and level to a degree not easily attained in a country like this. Several vast rocks which impeded its course were softened, split, and broken by means of fire, aided by the allusion of cold water when in the ar dent state. The adjacent forests furnished abun dance of wood for these operations; and the water was a sufficient as well as an easily accessible substi tute for the vinegar said to have.been used by Han nibal on a similar occasion, in passing the Alps, to invade the Roman territories in Italy. The ingenuity of the Rev. William Johnson, Minister of Regent's Town, who superintended and directed the work, thus improving the knowledge furnished by his read ing, and the combination of his skill and ability with the bodily strength and hearty zeal of his people, produced such rapidity of execution, that the task was completed in considerably less than one Month, although the extent is full two miles; for - the Road Act was not passed till the middle of September, a couple of weeks subsequently elapsed before the Ma gietrates, in their meetings for the purpose, could ar range the distribution of the charge of executing its provision, and the road has been finished 17 days ago. Let it be considered that not more than three or four years have passed since the greater number of Mr. Johnson's population were taken out of the holds of slave ships—and who can compare their present condition with that from which they were rescued, Without seeing manifest cause to exclaim—the hand of HEAVEN is in this!—who that places the simple and sincere Christian worship which precedes and follows their daily labours with the grovelling and malignant superstitions of their original state, their grigries, their red water, their witchcraft, and their devil's houses, without feeling and acknowledging a miracle of good which the immediate interposition of the ALMIGHTY could alone have wrought—and what greater blessing could man or nation desire to enjoy than to have been made the instruments of conferring such sublime benefits on the most abject of the hu man race? If any other circumstance could be re quired to prove the immediate interposition of the ALMIS!ITY, we have only to look.to the plain men and simple means employed in bringing about the, miraculous conversion that we have recorded—does it not recal the first diffusion of the Gospel by the Apostles themselves? These thoughts will occur to strangers at remote distance when they hear these things, and must they not occur much more forcibly to us who have these things constantly before our eyes? The roads from Leopold Town-and Charlotte Town, from Gloucester Town, Bathurst, Wilberforce, and Kissey, are all in forwardness on improved plans, although not on so grand a scale as that from Re gent's Town, where the power of hands is most fa vourable to great exertion, comprising 1500 persons, all in the bloom of life, with full promise now of proportionately rapid increase. Near Freetown, the circular road newly laid down, is extended to a width which appears to anticipate and prepare for the near approach of the time when , the ladies of the Settlement will use it for a favourite drive in their carriages, and the young cavaliers for their regular parade on horseback, but the magni- Ode of. the scale necessarily renders the progress of the execution slow. The road to meet that from Leicester Mountain is cleared for levelling, and that to meet the road from Kissey is levelled as well as cleared; other lines of road are, we believe, under the hands of the labourer, al thrmiecit they have not come co immediately under our paittenlir observation, for where exemples are so well calculated to rouse, emulation willneVer be deficient. Ttsc lines of roads inwards from Regent's Towu and Gloucester Town to 13athurst and thence to Len pold and Charlotte Towns, are now in rapid progress. iequal in breadth, and in proct ss still of execution to wards Freeto‘ n. In addition to the public buildings previously made known, we have to announce the erection of a hand some and spacious Hospital at Regent's Town, one wiiig of which, two stories in height, designed for female patie.tv., is' now ready to be rooted in ; the other wing, for male patients, and the centre, for me dical attendants and nurse', are rising up in quick succession towards the same level. At Gloucester Town a spacious Church is now re ceiving the floor over its basement story, designed for a v, areheuse for the public stores of the department. At Bathurst Town, the Resident's house is finished, with the exception of some of the inward work ; and at Leopold Town, a very fine public building is cons ple:ed for the inward finishing:. This building com prehends, on the basement story, a warehouse ; above that, under the same flight of stairs, a granary : then a grand story, containing apartments for the minister and teacher and his family, and a grand room for worship and instruction—above this is an excellent attic story, affording large additional accommoda tions. This building is 109 feet long by 29 feet broad with a piazza or gallery, seven feet wide round the whole building, roofed. Leopold Town has also a good house for another public officer. At Charlotte Town the public building, being but recently commenced, is not yet far advanced ; but as the favourable season is but just entered upon, we may expect this, as well as al the other edifices that we have mentioned as being in progress, to be finished before the next rains. In the excursion which furnished materials for this statement, the party visited the waterfall between Leopold and Charlotte Towns, which presents a very magnificent appearance, the swell of the water in the recent rainy season not having yet altogether sub sided. The majestic loftiness of the trees on the sum mit and sides of the rocky steeps—the snowy white ness of the torrent dashing from precipice to preci pice—and the noise and spray from the discharges into deep ravines of rocks, would give an impre sion of Alpine scenery, if the heat of the sun and some other African accompaniments did not recal Sierra Leone. In Freetown the work claiming most immediate notice is the wharfs and quays for the convenience of, loading and unloading the ships in the harbour. This work, constructed with massy wrought stones, ex tends for a length of 832 feet six inches from the slip 'in front of the Government-house to the boat-house adjoining 'the premises of Messrs. Macaulay and Ba bington, where another landing-place is in progress projected into deeper water, so as to admit of landing at all times of the tide. The Break-water for protect ing the present landing-places from the surf is so far advanced as to render the landing easy and expedi tious; and two powerful cranes, one of them entirely of cast-iron, are constantly at work, covering the quay with casks and bales of imported merchandize, or disencumbering it of native produce in return. This solid and highly useful work was planned by our excellent Governor, and constructed from its commencement to its conclusion under his daily per sonal superintendance. Twelve months haTe . ?% passed since the whole accommodation for landrlg was confined to a single slip ; now it is complete through the whole extent that we have mentiotted, and all that remains to be done is the projection for landing in deep water at low tide. The principal building of the hospital fOr liberated Negroes is finished ; and a large house for the provi-, sions-and stores for the use of these Negroes is roofed in—the latter begun within the year. It will not be matter of surprise that while these works of immediate urgency have been pushed on so rapidly, our great town Church has not kept pace with them ; indeed, where so much occupation is given to every hand by the multiplication of private residences of a superior class as well as by the con currence of such a number of public buildings, it is rather astonishing that this great edifice has not alto gether stood still. We are happy to observe, how ever, that it has got on notwithstanding all the im pediments enumerated. The pillars on which the arches of the roof are to rest are now ready to receive their capitals, some of which, simple but grand, are put on; the others, we trust, will soon follow t and it may be hoped, that as the labours hitherto divided among so many important objects may be speedily united on this one, we may before another year see it opened for Divine Service in a condition becoming the Metroplitan Church of West Africa. The new Church, at Kissey, is rather more ad vanced, in a style of building of nearly equal excel lence, and the number of private houses of superior descriptkas finished, or in progress, is even beyond the extraordinary number of the last year. Thus while the public works of greatest moment an mag nitude have been carried on with pre-eminent zeal and admirable rapidity, others have followed them with proportionate speed—private individuals have not been deprived of the necessary aids for their im proved accommodation and—nothing has stood 4611. Among the public buildings, it would be an act of injustice to omit particular mention of the Fish-market, the neatness of which renders it one of the most at tractive and gratifying objects on entering the harbour. Its situation, close upon the water's edge, affords emi nent convenience for landing, cleanliness, and preser vation of the important article of sustenance for the sale of which it is intended; at the same time that its contiguity to the general market combines to facili tate tie whole business of provisioning families. A letter from Berlin, dated May the 15th, says, gi The two days grand Spring Reviews of the Garri son of this City and Potsdam ended yesterday in se veral streets of the Capital, with an attack, which was accompanied with so heavy a fire of musquetry and artillery, that a very great number of windows was broken in some houses near the residence of the Prince Chancellor, and even the watches hanging at the window of a watchmaker in the neighbour hood, were all damaged. During this violent attack . the Crown Prince, who commanded the enemy, or dered several bridges to be drawn up, by which the victory was decided in favour .of tire enemy, the ad versary being obliged to retreat precipitately, for fear of having his retreat cut off. It is said this ?mea sure of drawing up the bridges was properly not con tained in the plan of attack which Lad been given.." LONDON. TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1819. Viutr-Tuasnay.—Holiday at the Bank, Exchequer, and South-Sea House. Tux PI :NOS.—Private bargains—Consols for July 66g. The common qnestion every where is, What are the New Taxes to be? for the proposal to have a Loan carries with it the idea of its natural conse quences—the providing of means to pay the interest. We understand, that among the Taxes to be imposed, is the revival of the whole or part of the War Tax on Malt—not on the Public Breweries and-Distilleries, but on the Malt itself, that private families may not evade the Duty by brewing their own beer : an addi tional Tax will, it is asserted, be also laid upon Tea, and upon Foreign Wool; and, it is confidently ru moured, that money will be raised by the sale of the Assessed Taxes, or putting them in a state of redemp tion, as was done with the Land Tax some years ago. In another column we have given extracts from Sierra Leone Gazettes to the 20th February. Some of the particulars - will be found possessing consider able interest. We have also given extracts from German Papers, which reached us last night. The expediency of establishing Representative Constitutions throughout Germany is not only the prevailing topic in the inter course of the people generally, but the subject of dis cussion in the Diet. In fact, every thing presses the necessity of their adoption, nor will it be possible for any long period to defer the measures which may be necessary to put them in operation. The friends of humanity and of social rights have yet to lament the prevalence of that narrow spirit of monopoly, which induces ignorant men to believe, that, by denying the rights of others, they shall ulti mately increase their own gains. The Jews, in some quarters, are still treated as a preset ibed race, and even denied the right of residence on the soil and in the towns that gave them birth. Let us hope that the Diet will take this into their consideration, and Extend protection to the helpless and persecuted de scendants of ABRAHAM. The Paris Papers of Friday arrived last night. The Joeirnal des Debots states that the KING has eztended . the Royal clemency to five more of the 38 individuals exiled by the Ordinances of the 21th of .114, 1815, &ad 17th of January 1816, viz. Marshal Somer., Lieutenant-General Pr RE, M. DIRAT, Count REAM and M. PommenetTL.' The Journal de Paris states farther, that o the came day on what his MAJEr•TY co:tread 1:;. ; giveness on these five individuals, he a l so „ t : the return of the Ex-Conventionalists worm ESCIIASSEItIA LI, TII ABA Wi t 311 , ! The Chamber of Deputie, con: rt:r.nced • : day the discussion of the par:irttlar Budget for 1819. The propose 1 Gra:lts for to lic Debt, the Xinking Fund, the Civil Li,t, t' Family, the Ministry of Justi: e, and Coul:cil o. were respectively passed without any The Chamber then adjourned. Accounts are said to have reached Contra, stating that the nephew of the Pach: r f F., succeeded in comp!etely di.persinz le: the Wachabite forces, and has taken possessio name of the Grand Seignior, of the P:ci Yemen (Arabia Felix.) The Governor of Egypt, Mohammed-lli is represented as making great exertions to exi commerce of that country. He has formed andria an Insurance Company, with a c: 100,000 piastres, divided into two husuired 500 each. It began doing business on the Ist last ; and has obtained the countenance cf commercial houses in Egypt. The excavation of the Canal, which is to le: Raminich to Pompey's Pillar, is cornmen( the Pacha himself frequently superintends the men, who are very numerous. The Turkish flotilla, which usually cruizes the summer in the Archipelago, was about die of last month ready to put to sea. It is uni command of a Capt tin. An officer of the Bostanghi Bacchi was lat by order of the Grand Seignior, to seize on t. of Prince Costacto llorusi, and conduct him telene. This measure has excited a good de: - prise—the more especially as the Prince i to four Greek families to whom the Grand has granted the perpe:ual Government of V and Moldavia. A curious conflict has arisen in the Swim of Lucerne between the Civil and Eccles:as: thorities, on a matter of jurisdiction. A new Law had been passed -in the Canton which that the Curates should furnish Extracts of from the Parish books in order to enable Authorities to carry the balloting for the 111 execution. • The Episcopal Vicar-General that he saw in this enactment a great contemi Clerical Authority, arid he wrote a letter to vernment, in which he maintained that the 1 of Baptism being purely Ecclesiastical acts, had no right to interfere with them unless concurrent approbation and consent of the Ecclesiastical Authority. The Government, however, paid no attcntiett this remonstrance, but proceeded to take vr rous measures against some Curates, who, to the injunction of their superior, refused the extracts required. The Vicar-General ; against this conduct of the Esccutivt Sovereign Council of the Canton. The Cow cordingly met on the subject, and the result' that they have passed a severe reprimand Vicar-General, and ordered that the law shall variably and strictly executed. Letters from Rio Janeiro have brought intel of the sudden death of Baron de NEVEN, trian Minister Plenipotentiary. The Archduke CHARLES and his spouse, through Frankfort on the 21st ult. on their Vienna. The Prussian Government has issued twi Orders of considerable importance. One prohibits the proprietors of Prussian Pol. dispossessing their peasants of their farms some previous judicial proceeding; the other the Royal Administration of the Establishi the Poor of Berlin, and confides that Admi to the Municipal Authorities. The King a sum of 75,000 crowns per annum to the propriated to the relief of the Poor. The Russian Privy Councillor, D'Engel Governor of Theodosia, is said to have foul Crimea the true breed of the goats of Kirgui wool, according to the testimony of French I Curers, particularly M. Ternauz, is the salmi of the goats of Thibet. M.Jouhert, during ney which he made into the Crimea, discov , the goats there were the same as those whit. purchased among the Kirguis ; the breed had, at an anterior period, been imported from guis into the Crimea. This discovery is ex;• have a great influence on the fabrication of in Europe. The Augsburgh Gazete states, that the de Survellers (Madame Joseili 13onapart( proposed to sail this spring for America, ii rejoin her husband, wished previously to in order to recover the property which Jose, left there, but that s.s. many obstacles have the execution of this design, that she has Jeff jour:ley to France till the spring of MX). French 5 per Cents. Yiarsilay, Mfr. tiPc, Another day's Paris P.yers (those of art ived at a late hour this foa.noon. The Journal des Deb.rts, a:ludiag to the recal of the Es-(7onventkinatiqs, Fourty BIGNY, and t?iree othe..s. o:me.:ves, that the stand in the list of 11,-,;ici,:es; ,111,1 it i, to c:cdit rciort, Fc:iz:vc exc. Y• .; AAPP ' • " I r •. i ll • C • • r • w 1 I. tr. 1' ' GERMAN PAPERS. HANOVER, MAY 21. Lientenant-Colimel Proff; who is stated to be gone to England ‘vitli.a commission relative to the reduc tion of the Hanoverian army, is expected to return shortly. A report says, that four Regiments of In fantry will be disbanded. The heat of the weather continues to increase.— For some weeks we have had no rain, and the drought is very injurious to the fields and gardens, particu larly in the sandy districts. AUGSBURG, MAY '2l. - - - Accounts from Frankfort say, that the Countess of So rvellers (the Ex-Queen of Spain) who intended to set out this Spting to join her husband in North America, had first to fetch her effects from Paris, but ha; met with so many difficulties, that she has de• ter mined to defer her voyage till the Spring or 1820. Sonic Papers say, that in the confidential sittings of the Diet, the introduction of Representative Con-, stitations has been mentioned, but it is not yet de cided whether any discussion on the subject is to • take place in the public Sittings of the Diet. It ap pears, that several Ambassadors desire it only some months later than was fixed last year ; the chief cause of this delay is said to be, that the internal situation of sonic States has not permitted the preli minary measures for the introduction of a Constitu tion to be brought to maturity ; this is said to be particularly the case of Prussia; should it, however, be decided shortly to receive declarations on the sub ject in the public Sittings, delay will be proposed by several Courts, accompanied with an assurance that this affair shall be completed in the shortest time possible. . _ FROM TUE MAIN, MAY 19. Accounts from the frontiers of Saxony give the following particulars of the expulsion of the Jews from Meiningen. From ancient times the town had the privilege that no Jew should reside there ; lat terly several Jews had established themselves there, without any opposition from the Government. Some time since, circumstances being changed, the Ma gistrates thought it advisable to enforce the old regu-' lations, and all Jew beggars and petty dealers re ceived orders to quit the town, which they did.— Some rich Jewish families remained, and the Ma gistrates were asked whether they should be further tolerated? The Magistrates thought themselves not competent to decide this question, and called an Assembly of the Citizens. This Assembly had scarcely heard what was the matter in debate, when some of them, resolved to cut the knot at once, col lected some empty waggons standing in the market, obliged the Jews still remaining to pack up their goods, and to put themselves with them in the ve hicles which stood ready to convey them over the frontiers. The immediate cause of the event is said to have been, that a Jew, contrary to the ancient custom, which did not permit persons of his nation to acquit' real property, had purchased a house in the town 4 Meiningen, and desired to have his name registered as the proprietor. The Duke of Oldenburgh has resolved to give his States a Representative Constitution, according to the 13th Article of the Act of Union. THE EVENING STAR, • c r.f :e 4 of F.- - ;itia , ;'.-YPt his ?3, :n tic vince •.f xtev.d :i. 4 at : ( . 1 .(3. ..Api::: es, cf t the 14..; leld fir: 7 a Iced, the o f t _ es : the mid. under the Itely sent, the per m to ','‘4 eal of nr is related. I Seig'ii Wallach iss Cant.- sheaf i require , f Baptis., the Civil lilitia into thought mpt of the to the G. Rezisters , the S:ate s with the ie proper ttentieu es very riga obedient d to give appealed Ls. G. 414 ounji It has been d on the hall be in- stelligerce , the Ans. -se, passel r return to ;o Cabinet ,! of them !and iron is withcm r dissolve hments ft: is to aUJ fur.ds ac- rl, who is and in :he ;nis, v;hcie. roe as that g the j 'our- ,vered that ich he hat ad, in fact, n the Kir- !xt ected /0 fine Shawls e Countess ter having in order to visit Paric, roseph had e ari , en to eferred he t. futurdaF) e reported Mt &AU' leir name is ditsctit kciarutica I,