The National Register. — London, England, 1819-10-17 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. That full and precise intbrmation, in regard to the Colony above-mentioned, is wanted by the public at !. large, at a time when a pecuniary grant of the House of Commons, and the intimations of his f tjesty's Vovernlllellt, have turned the thoughts of multitudes to emigrat►ng in that direction, will not be denied ; and this want is the more apparent from the C;►ct, that amid the meagre, though in some instances, sit ffitiently boastful contributions, which, on the spur of the occasion, the press has hitherto offered, none but the thir side of the picture has been exhibited ; no discriminating hand has been stretched forth, to separate the bad from the good, nor no warning voice lifted up, to forbid unfounded expectations, nor prevent improvident adventure. His Majesty's Government has proposed emigration to the Cape of Good Hope, and immediately the press has seemed anxious only to stimulate the appetite for the under taking, without reference either to the difficulties or the evils to be encountered abroad, or to the mis takes, and. even the frauds, which are to be appre &ended at home. The features of less agreeable appearance, which the intended English settler should contemplate, be fore he resolves on departure fur the Cape, and especially before he enters into any engagements to that end, are not few, and shall here, in part, be se verally, though briefly, pointed out. I. Tae Voy diuiers of a pasiage, in a crow ded ship, nem, the eqaator, to ih , • southward of it, iii the summer semen, (November, Weather, and Januttr), 111{Ol but he overlooked. eLIII4/11.—Stinitthing too much has probably been generally said roofer's's% the excellence of the t Innate of the Cape of Go id Hope, especially its refer rat e in the bodily tout mental esertiora of Cur ispersiis Oar ed under its influence. S. Larauutt.--;All the labour, ut present performed in the Colnny, proceeds from persons of colour, either Hottentot servants, oar Malay or African slaves. Thai fact is of isaportance in an Mihaly of views. et ire La emu ste.as —lt is by no ovens eertaM that Enrsspean constitutioris arc physically maims. lit to the perform:twee of bodily- labour at the Cape; but, inde pendently of this doubt, there exists inure 11100 0111: MOlOl . &Moak) , iu the arty. In all agricultu al settlements, in all couutriea where the quantity of land and spontaireaus i no dileta of inpare owes instance the population, bodily labour b is peculiar emitemp ; at like Cape of Good Hope it is kuown to be underriably so. The whites do nothing. Every white man, however poor, and however wretched, prefers the endurance of those evils to labour, and especially io sec. witud--. Thus, a labouring man in Emgland, cunt inning to be a labouring inaot the Cape, will God the hardship Mhos is considerably igkravated. 5. C•err•t..—The peter of labour at the Cape, whether performed Icy slaves or by free Remiss, is exceedingly high— a consideration of great importance to the capitalist. If :melt an one should attempt to !emedy the evil, by carrying Indented labourers trims this country, the circumstances refereed to in the preceding paragraph a ill invo:ve him in raffles. trouble. 'I . he labaurers will fiat, at or sums after their arrivals. that they have ;ward to what they in 110 Itsibel:l, understood; they sill aspire to be masteis, they viilldeyi:serutr.tiot, :Lad they will prefer Ir v log with the riuttentots ur Cultres, in a state of naleTendeace, to living with their brother Europeans in astute of servitude. ti. 1. ANI us.—Many difficulties wvll present themselves to capitalists, in tile obtaining of lands suitable in point of situation, and safficient in "mitt of ext,iit ; ars for which the state of the surface, and the character of the climate in Cogitate!, can in no wise have prepared them; but when (as it issaid to be the ease; unfortunate and ienti twit peruses wafer themselves to be indeuted, in this country, for three or four years' service, at the price of mei ivirig ttecnty-fire saris of land at the end of the term, no words eau es press, with sufficient strength, the grossness of the nu prisitian. "Twerity•five acres of laud, in the Colony of the Cape of (food Hope, must, in 010304 every case be tiara ii.dhing at all. *. The pursuer," 6;1)1 a circular letter of, Emil Bathurst, " tinder vtti se oir.e,sitai a party of settlers psuceeds, is at liberty to amore their services by any legal agreement 000 .thick they may Clink proper to eater.' This paragraph unavoidably points to it sweat of mhi litany t-tior int speculators, and some bad minds, will certainly take ;Aran e hasp already heard in England, of redemptismers and white slaves in the United States of America,. We shun now bear of them at the Cape of Good Hope.. These " legal agreements" ail. be found cruelty oppressive ; the servants w ill a:, fro in the": COOIIIICII, a al the appeal will be to—Dutch laws. Ilia Majesty's Ga. ttttt Cif!, so far from lending its C10011C11:1111se 10 these "legal igreeinenta," ought to provide eqm tab c relief fur the ueluded victims of them, by propris;in; to Parliament a Bill 101 rendering Doll and void all contract, for service within the Colony of the Cape of 60u,l Hope, either formal y or •irtually entered into, by any person, oat being a native the Cape, either its Europe, ur else% here, at any time *atria two months after his first arrival at the Cape; provided always, that if, in pursuance of any sup i! coutract, tory service shall have beets actually performed, then the servant Isbell be trainee. to receive under it a proportional part of Iris stipulated reward. 7. WANT OF MAItILETS.---Want of markets, and of ineatt► of conveyance to market, form another subject for the iierieus cousideiation of the captallst ; and these evils, to whatever cau.e they may be on iiisr, are confessed to at the Cape of Good Hope. Herr. too, it beeMs proper to observe, that this and miser source, of lhr tion, rind Other consequent causes of tile addi. lion to vice•, fin %hick the Colouistii are to lima. blanwit, w al, there is too much 'casual to ,l•ur, be found equall) to civvies, Faigliblosirn, and uhimuteiy to produce a large pinelson of siniiiiai ily in the eltieracter and toodact of the Settler., of whatever nation. Let it hr ad.led, that so Filuilisr speculation,, theta:our:Li feria ttly of the soli u. C:::1114te, ur the tieusutesi, or any kind, ss Inch stature may idles, taa4lll to he. ::ccotluu•d fur %vv.!, litae, irsicept where lhrj ale .sc.ompariird hy a ilNuaint nrnlatGel. b.—LANGL et.r.3 ASO NIANNERt OF TON COLONISTS.—IIIe two emsnot tilortst to find weer nor even their undertakings, is.dependent of the present Co:insists. These are intriguers, who speak their nap languase, pesscaa their wan riliumerr, and rural .with THE NATIONAL REGISTER. seal, their on n religion. They have overspread tar country, though thinly ; their numbers tire hot incur:wing ; they are lookiii.; out for lands for their soli* sod daughters; nieir interests are opposite to thin* of the new Settlers; they have brought down upon the Colony the nuimosity of two • "flei , llizetl nations, and this situation of things enters into the whole coMposition of their alia.ra. The Dutch and German languages must be lerweed by the new Settlers, hich latter must become Dutch and Germans themselves; for it would contradict all experience to expect than the imitation will take plate on the side of the old inhabitants and the majority, isoilead of that of the new inhabitants and the minority. —Mr. Mitchell, a writer who describes himself as having travelled its the back country of the Cape, proposes to obviate some of these objections, by collecting the English Settlers in a separate • onmiunity, on the banks of of the Sea-cow River ; but that country, in which Mr. Bur chell, as be Informs us, fouud only inoffensive and friendly nutters, cannot be approached but through a region, which the Dutch have lieu obliged to abandon, on account of the hostilities of the exasperated Bosjesmans. 9. HOSTILITY of Twe N Aviv xs.--That. wart of the Colony of the Cape of Gond Hope, which, is other respects, must be most eligible for the retry' of the English Seltlers,and to which the views of his Majesty's (Inver 1111 l COM (iulluenced, as it is probable, as well as by lot al policy, nw by home ) are reported to be turned, is esposed to the ravages of tae Callres oil the East, and of the ilinjes. mans, or wild Hottentots, out the North. The colonial quarrels wall these two nations are not green, and such as inusi be expected every where, between foreign cot ',is and the natives of the soil; but ate the growth of yea :5, tool ensanguined and embittered by long series of reeiptiteill ha barn les. of the perpetration anal provocation of a Melt the New Settlers are equally i 11111 l cent, but of which they most bear the consequences. W. GOVERNMENT AND LAWS —lf every other ()Nee tutu were removed, there %ttal still reinaio dile, of some inaptitude, when the pies • re, arils the removal of En glishmen, into a country where the form of Government al lows of nothing its c with English lilies ties, and where the laws, whether better sir worso, are, for the mo.t part, wholly diaeresis from those under which they have horn and bred. The Cape has nia house of assembly, ho freedom of the press, our no trial by jury ; no consent of the governed it/ laws either of police or of revenue. Though sway. d by the British sceptre, it participates neither iu the British constitution, nor in the British laws..* Some of its Inns, the diversity of naish, from the Ili itish, is here spoken of, come i 111 l e to, the misst ordinary itscidents of life, and press for the examinati 111 l of every inch% woe!. The laws of marriage and divot re are of this number. Di. vorces are obtainable for causes unheard of In this country ; and it is open to unprincipled emigrant husbands, has.ing first removed their is ives to the Cape, to ultimo .disuicss upon the most unexpected grounds. 'Thus, fu all our news of the Cape—of the coiotruction of ifs society, us well as tic the quality of its soil and climate ; —of its tatic,ll9o. REMO' Hers, religion, gove . tit and laws;—it is a foreign bun try, and not inertly a.distaut portion of English trrrstury— uti English colony, such as Ilse uninformed doubtlessly es• teens ii; and to crown all, this furesgu country is the actual theatre of foreign and ferocious wasse—wars in the ea ,gin of which, Englishmen have neither given nor rmetved tojury, and in the conclusion of, which. their hearts are wanton ante, est. 'nye Or DCPARTORE FROM Tttts COuriTitY.— It remains only to take notice of a pilot of the arraugements of his Majesty's Goverunient, conceriong wloit b it seems ditlicolt to offer au explanation, and the aqua itauce of hich, nevertheless, is of the highest order; for if the Cape really possessed every allurement, and acre INTO itipaniva by NO bUttiect tor hesitation, hall, tat proper frabl/11 lot em barkation fur it a %mid be entitle(' to the must ssraiiis regard. lu a posteript to the printed letter which appears to hove been the host, circulated from Dow • -sheet, it is saint that " in order to insure the urrival of the Settlers, at the Cape,ca the beginning of the planting season, the trans puh is will not leave this country till the mouth of Nevem' her." Now, the seasons of the year, as N all he Well fi nis e than one statement contained in the Cu:twist! Journal, No. IV. us aell us other sources of information, are, at the Cape of Good Hope, the exact opposite of those to Englaud. The English autuniii is the Cape spring. The voyage to the Cave is estimated ut three issoutht; .and ships, sailing from this country in the beginning ul November, are there fore to he expected to reach the Cape in the begioing of February ; that is, at the 1•0.1*00 h,f 4111110lb:int' barrenness, and not at the planting seasoo. The rpriug planting season at the Cope, b.giois N tilt September, said settlers, to arrive at the Cape at that time, ought to have this t ()wary iu the Negotian t ; of June : tar proofs, consult the comparative Table of the Seasons, and the Cape of Good Hope Rural Calendar, contained• in the Colonial Joui hal, No. IV; but, for further proof, hear the words of Air. Harlow, in hi. Preface to his Travels into the Mai ior u: Suutieeru Aft ice. The passage comprises, besides, slime qualifying remarks ou the general character of the Cape, to respect edits ye generic riches:—" In the iostauce 0( the Cape, as to must other cases, we may probably discover the to nth to lie in the middle. It idlers nothing very peculiar, either hit lie productive quality of the soil, or iu its sterility. Where there is moisture, the vitriol I, of the climate promotes on, without the preparation of an at liticial soil, by the aid of composts or mouses: Mawr, one crop of grain in the year miry be procured Irmo the shallowest sail, and even f "beer sand. Hut; isefiatunately fur the country, ia the ho/test atone/is of the year, from the beginning of De. readr.r to the read of March, et..d sometimes to the middle of . Apa it, there sm, - casi fele a stmgle shower of rain. Jut these , atoolihs Vie verdure totally disappears; and the sehok surface f the coutary picsents to the rye, either large tracts of a late sand, dotted with slit is elled heaths and other *boobs, struggling, as it were, to maintain the living pi inciplc, uh reg . cuvereu Nitlt that brim ii sickly hue, in a lach-an ' angry poet, with more Nit than jietice i , has dressed the surface of that part of our island to the matt:maid of the aced t "* For as the eye could mach, no tree was seen; Eat th, tlad w ru,,et, the lively grecs.'" " s AI r. ltarruw, " ;noising from a long .e 4 trmts, and immediately meeting with most or the Ii mupc:lit, and !taint: 4/f the tropical IfUltS, the Ca pc intl,t, ila ,19.1b1, olt t t. ar a most deli,4ln:Ul spud ; and such pelmws, .halt and lauded Nita refreshinem.ts tut the sitAlle. pail 01 Illeir voyage, are :tilt 60 tit RA amid LLag. rtatg Utc We:U.IIIW: the value or time cuumitiy.— autammwt• • - •immo, and ti.r, lat., are wt. Liken up with Ow beauty ;old vast mirmei.N mkt fluttering shrubs and loilthmue-rioted 'dale's, ilia, they UrellOok the windy bit/tat e out of a Inch they grow, entirely hare of aay kind of gras s , amid destitute of that sugatul; ty WO; ism distinauishin6 a fcatutu of yur OCT. 17. happy island. Beautiful as the heaths of the Cape mast unquestionably are, yet those aho have been accustomed to look at them matured in the green houses of England, where all or tof the humorous specie., and variety of the ilea, are cielectrd into owe group, and arrituged se a. . convey the must striking ell'ett,.would• be greatly disap pointed if they ea peeled to Awe' :Mein, in tbe•saiiir stale of pflfeeiioll, in their natural soil." To revert to the planting season, or scavons, it a wild 1w endless to cite authorities for showing, that this, in the ('ape Spring, is from Ilw brgivai , g of Siqrsenaber to the end of Nueensber ; a bile fi bet coda' to March (the period within which ships sailing from Eng land in October or November should arrive) is -the hotte.t time of the year ; the tune of Sommer, instead of tl,e time of the time of the south-east aMk which, like the sii Heel) of Naples, relay both the body and the mind ; the the time when the plough cannot be put into the ground, and alien wrist-lithe into the country Calllll/1 be pet formed : The Cape Autumn befillS in March,- or even as late us tler middle of April; and, therebire, to meet either the formai or the Litter rains, Settlers should lruve this country, either in the beigitinina of Jane, or else tu the begi iiii ii ig of J ammo y. Under every aspect, his Majesty's Government, in the plan which it has adopted for encouraging tin accession of St ttlers at the !'ape, has taken upon itself a heavy responsi- Witty ; a iesposisibility of a hick it is 11/11 Ille small st part, tit it it a ill find itself ea:led upon to hear the aright of the sins and ini.takes of others as well as that of its own. It a ill be reproached as the parent of every disappointed hope, and the contriver of every fraudulent bargain ; and no Ion . ; apace of tow, it is to he feared, it i l follow, after the depar inre and iliseinliarkation of the Settler., before it will find the whole transaction a fruitful subject of cumplititit and censure. Several circumstances, it is understood, huea had the effect of Minging, for the present, his Majesty's Covet ;meld to a pause; and of these, our of the most prominent, as well as the most easily guessed, is the state of the Catfre oac.— In this situate oo of affairs, no emigrants, e er e t those olio claim its pledge as to toile, o ill be for o anted at the present season, amt these, it is ...id, will be landed tit Cape Town, a here their silitatioh it may be suspected, w ill not be a very env iahle one. Time, then, briog to he gained, I. tus hope th.tt his Majesty's Govei 'intent is ill nail itself of the upper. t ) thus afforded it fur reconsidoing all the details at the design. • - See Colonial Journal, No. 111, page 50, No. YE, page 310. Till" REVENUE. Abstract of the net produce of the Revenue of Great Britain (ex clusive of the arrears of waroluty on malt and property). in the years and quarter ended loth Oct. ISIS, and 10th Oct. 1;51u: showing the incluse or decrease on each head thereof. YEARS. Years ended lath Oct. Increase as Decrease as compared compared 1819. 1819. with lain. with 1918. (\t trams CIO ,5413,1a3 X 9,5` , Z78 e l 3 ---1 X969.363 I.: ICI Ye 22.136.082 22,98V,973 £9.4.6,71).3 Stamps 6,4'27,270 6,211,34'J Phut-office ... 1,359.1i0ew 1.316,000 77,0. iii ASISCSS. Tam , 6,173,833 6,178,432 3.;!1 Land Taxes . 1,04.920 1099,736 43,916 Miscellanea. 490,020 5 it. 1,055 49,289,3091 47,910,3& 953,2u81,322,141 =-- -- ___ Deduct Increux. ie as compered with the year 181 QUARTERS. 953,2 e 368,94 t quarters ended Inth Oct. Increase asiDecreasc as --- compared compared 1818. 1819. %kith 1818. 1 with 181 h. ---- CuMomit X 3,669,701 1 2:753,1 6 7 Excise. 5.860.8144 3,1/74,687 &WIN , 1.67 Y. 165 1,575.437' Must-otfsee.... 31.10,0tX) 375,000 1:15,M) MR'S& TIVICS 787,426 781,44 b Land Taxes . 181.801 1911.177 11'4376 Miscalaneo. 49,150 77,648 28,418 -- 1 --'-- 12,587,109 11,435,5441 39,854 1,211,410 --I . Increlise DICTUM as 59.554 with the Quarter 1818 1,151,536 CARLILE'S TRIAL. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Perceiving, ion interning paper, that my name is hat csitaccd in a mintier calculated to lead the public to bet,cre• that 1 was instrumental in framing the dvtenct of Nlr. Cathie, on his trial fur publishing Paige's " Age of Reason," yuu will oblige me by ran-ding your relitlClS an opportunity of knowing the true state of the case. Dialog been oresent in Court, as an auditor, 1 was earnestly solar t ied at the close of the second day by several friends to the Wirt ty of the press, to poiut out, in conjunction with two liter:try gentlemen, those authors ss Ito had isritten the most ably in defence of toleration, and unrestricted freedom of opiniuti on religious subjects, and to mat k the passages. )'his 1 assented to; nor dol.:qtr./bend that such a request could have been refused by any liberal-minded nom, or that the most scrupulous would find fault wait me fur haste:, acquiesced in it. I accordinAly arranged, aim, as well as I could in a.few hours,the writ morning, connected a series of quotatious from Ai chhishop Tillotson, Bishop Squire, Dr. Furneaus, Bishop Watson, Professor Linthoich, Campbell, Mr. Lucke, Dr. Enfield, flit Rev Mr. %%'g rill, the Hews Mr. Aspland, the Christian Reformer, and other authorities of equal a eLlit and tendency. This was read by Mr. Cathie, °dray third day, with inlerpolutions of his own; and the, with the luau, of Erasures, Xli:tuir's Areopa gilica, Delauew on Nuticonforinity, a volume of Black stone, it tract by Lord Sowers, nod a few wen otos end pamphlets, coustituted the whole of my exertions ou this uraordilary occasion. I ion, Sir, your obedient serinnt, %IILLIANI HONE. 45, Ludg&tc•hill, October I. Car:de, the bookseller, resided about two years ago. in the Colonnade, Brunswick-square, at which tulle he war a journeyman Unman, and was so miserably poor, that he was then recctving relief frout the patoti of St. Giles-iti-the-Fields.