The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1819-12-30 00:00:00

#7: . , o. >W • or. ; 111.0., JR , 0 -4 lit It AP . <I I; VI 110 1 LONDON. TI I I.IIIS DA Y, NUMBER 3324. DECEMBER 30. 1519. PRICE 7d. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OFFICE, Eeiabtielrerl Ituyai thsrter is t►e Rrign of Kisg George tits First. • gratis plaits', but by the English, Albany. It lies masher mottling on them at present, including between the Suisdey awl the Great rssh Hitters, staves and Hottentots: and if to the numbers ens. neatly 500 miles to the eastward of the Cape paths- ploeed as mrsicultore, we add the tradesmen used role, and stretches about 70 wiles slang the line 1 artulieers in tlw towns, those occupied in the fish of the sea-coast, by 30 aulaud. cosetai ss i l tic ab.ssit I 'Fire. and the coveting trails, we stay carry coo* 5.000 square miles, or 1.480,000 pries, of %Itch i elude. that tits colony is capable of supporting a 480,000 may perhaps, Id Oubliette, be occupied by 1 population little short of • 'Milano otipaide. 50 or GO families t the reniaioung millsuu win be i .. That massy of the neglected and wholly uos disposable; and of this the renter portion is wan- 1 wiltivated Inas-farm% now in the possersios of vertible to useful purposes; .the ragged summits of I Dutch hears, will fell into the hands - - the Inns lie favourably for sheep awl cattle; their five and indurtrions proprietors, can a gently sloping aisles for sitsaymeia. mid the plains matter of doubt, or regret. Hemmed mud valleys for grain, pulsar rretilleial gra-sea, Nod soar, owl all hta old habits .tsmkeu • culinary vegetables. The • tier of tins titstriatar - i Wets Imidne that "" 1 " -- . r s beautifully variegated by ousidafe, sou, efitt sorely tam cattle as arts of-Na colony, I. tolerably well covered wills a thick coarse grass, which, bring suffered to wither on tire g round from year to year, spring* up with that 'aiLoess which has given name to the district. When the Cattiest were in possession of these plains, their custom was tassel fire to the gots*, which spreading over seve ral square miles', wade the whole surfice, when Ilse rains came, weer the appearance of a field of youisg core. weut in search of the shipwrecked crew of the. Liirorisrenor Indiamao, travelled about 300 miles bs pad tire hunts of the colony. They cro.stri ao• wards of thirty considerable rivers tolerates's% the plains ia their way to the sea, raised ihrartgb aver - 011 inagnificeut forests, rind traversed au .uodulatterac earfore of hill and dais. finely clothed with eras.. and abooadiumia every description of game, fruga l , the elephant to the hare. but so destitute of the " that ' Decensett, 1219. VIDERSONS whose Annum! Pfeillllltllll4 fill due on the 25th inxtant, are hereby informed, that Receiple are wow ready to he delivered at the Company's Mires, over the Royal Exchabire and in Pall-Mall, as well as by their respective Atents iu the several Counties; and the Patties Assured, are requested so apply fur the ReliCilai of their Policies, on or before the Aih of January next, as the usual lifters Days allowed fur Paytoeut, beyond the Date acacia Policy, will dies expire. sd's of more wc• hiimsn ' speehrae that for twelve days tagetiscr they o seemly be a did wot meet with a single straggler. oed in on every , "At length, however. after travelling about 404, "'"4l‘ 11 in ups', tbw • . - Niihry 4t ..,....auteressuses l A, dereN. 4 ir rnithiessi lig * Ilk . stile ►sake of t wit %l i r , an.% - 7 41 ,t 1 C.,1 4 : 1 sot si dint or The where Of • - . Thew - I herds, will be rens& tatted themselves Illamhimiiiii. They hail at in the land, fair complexions. inclining to a y.llimish tint, 'vi a ovey Mountains, their long black coarse hair was frizzled not re ~• SAMUEL FENNING, Jun. Secretary. •.• Attendance is circa. at 1W for the - of MON Stow stsistssbrie accesioartrid Tie preeweed to attend his flocks and Una hspp 'tit eli4pose of his interest and betake himself behind the Suowy Mountains, to dist delightful retreat, among the Busjesniatra i recommended be Mr. Borchelt. • " To those Ilritish farmers, and others, who, 'having small capitals to carry with them. may pro ceed on ;heir own account„ . and select their own si tuati in the colony, either by purchase or grant, we would particularly recommend some of the fol- LIFE OFFICE-CAPITAL ONE MILLION. ROYAL COBURG THEATRE, Under the Patronage of his Roysl Highness Prince LEOPOLD of SAXE COBURG. FOURTH APPEARANCE OF MR. ROOTH. Ts EVENING, THURSDAY, Dec. 3 0 , TJ-morrow, and Saturday, at Half past Six precisely, yid be rte.:ford, • Melo•drama, in three acts, fuutuled uu Chimes compiled Tragedy, from Sleakspeare. called KING RICHARD THE THIRD; OR. THE RATTLE OF BOSWORTH FIELD. King Heury, Mr. Gallot; Trevael, Mr. Stanley; Duke of llu •kuttbeut, Mr. Birrymitre, mew.; Richard, Duke of Glu'Arr. Mr. Rooth ; Ltud Stanley , M 4. Howell; Robrourt4., Mr T. P. Cooke. Qom*, atm Smiley; Lody Aimee, Mk* Love ; bodices of York. Mrs. Gatlin!. A Comic Snug, by Mr. Bryant. Ticaaclutlewi tbc bigh:y. popular Strio-Pantominse, called B 1 ; OR, THREE-PINGKIM JACK. Captain o.f.iril, Mr. Auld (his fourth appearaurt at this Theatre); Tuekey (Inv servant), Miss &nun. ; Quasber, Mr. Cullionhunme; Sam, Mr. Bradley; Three•Fnger'd Jack, Mr. T. P. Cuukr. Rosa, 31n. Stanley; Illsns's Wife, Sliss Welliver; Quashre's Wife, Mrs. Bradley. !loves, 4.1 —Upprr Circle, 3s.—Pit, Ya—Grllrry, is-- blurs owls at Halfinst Five, In C0111111,114:C 111 Half•past b:x —Second Prier at Half-past Eight. 11t TS-SECOND 1. LIST. 'ANKH WINES, &c. Per Doz. Choice Old 31adeirs - 46.. Superior West lud.a ~. ditto - 635. to Ges. Finest East India ditto 751. to 60s. Fine Old Lisbon . 460. !inertias - . 466 Perm's, assuring in this Office partieipate in prat', wiHimit incurring tise liability of los., the Proprietors hav ing undertaken .Il responsibility; upon which principle nu merous are the instances of Ten, Twenty, awl Thirty per Cent. being paid in addition to the amount assured; and cams have nertinid (when the duration of life has been consider. ably prolonged) where Hie payment has been more than double the sem assured. A Bonus, amounting is most instances M 25 per cent., nod in JOllle to upwards of 30 per tent. on the premium paid within the last seven sears, ending at Michaelmas last, Las been added to all Policies of Assurance effected in this Wire fur the whole period of Life. No Entrance Money, Admission Fee, ns other Official Charge, maimed. WILLIAM BURY, Sec. ----- . • rif RA TUN-ROYAL, DRURY-LAN R. I ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE OFFICE, THIS EVENING, THUIISI)AY, Dee. 30, Esiabiished by Royal Charter in the Reign id' King George his Majesty's Servants will perform the Comedy of I the First. • ‘1 . 11.1) 0 -1 . 1 .14 ; Decrnentst, 1210. OR, THE STRIDIAING GENTLEMEN. DERSONS whose Annu m ! PreSIIISSIU4 fill doe w George Thunder, Mr. D.. ton ; fore,, Mr. Ellletens; on on the 25th instant, a re h en by ilifuemeill,tlkt Receipts t H a rr' Thunder, Mr. Pesky i iiriiivi , Mr. rowel , ; JAIw a the re wow ready . to be delivered at the Company's Oakes, over Mr. Gone; FartearGammon, Mr. Meredith; Lamp, Royal Exchabge and in Palt.Mall, as well as by their respective Agents iu the several Counties' ; and the Ponies As!. - • , . 0,, Seeley; nplarates Swasoili, Mr. Menden • Sins, Mr. ~" Mrs W. Assured, are requested to apply fur die Relitila of their '' I„ it be ; MU; Mr. C"i:ealal• Lady "' lull " , ' Policies, on or before the nth of January next, as the usual lira ; Amelia, Mir. Knight ; Jane, Milli Kelly. lifters Days allowed fur Payment, beyond the Date acacia ifie, which, 4th time, so votively new Comic Pantomime, pok y, will l b., expire. '• culled JACK AND THE BEAN STALK ; SAMUEL FENNI NG, /no. Secreta r y. •.• Attendance is given. daily, at the and Mikes, fee the I' Or, MAR LEQUIN AND THE OGRE. Assurance 4 Buildings, Goods, Illeirellegai The Ocre, Mr. Hodson; Jack, Miss Noes, afterwards Hat. in HarhNur. is Duck, or while Buildin g, anl, GO nip, (rum luso sr m Mr Ilutogua; Paidalools, Mr. Elliott ; Cleness, Ile. • b...thhy ; Balled Stager, Mr. i n, Jack's Mother, Mrs. A ZielO walba A wo , Craeret 'dined grout. p w re ; Janette (afterwards ), Miss ' imispil l o c res. ' ;Ares, ' l %. .... Li • ~.,1 &Weil a His Maga We be leseed, free 4' expellee, to Ihn Aoa r a d f, w the Amok! PICSISSISOS arrerats is Am or tir- o ...! Evil Gerws. Mi. wa . j ertSiesipie Pm emu, by ileums. &lava mod Soullsby. h j PSI Scut by Mies Trig. HOPE FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, The new Pactomissie of Jack and the Beau Stalk will be i OMres 10, Ludgate hill, and 324, arlyosieng the Careen, ousted every revising till farther ounce. Oxforitodreet, Lundou ; 10, Prince sire, t, Eiliuburgb ; I, Tudno, roar, the Opera of The Devil's Briilge. and IS, trestmoreland.street. Dublin. ' --- —___.... FIRE OFF:CE.—CAPITAL ONE MILLION. i ill E. 4 TR K-RO YAL, CO V tiMlto.4 HORN. POLICIES etteetrti .pun every description of Tills EVENING, THURSDAY, Dec. 30, Property within the United Kingdom, upon reason. will be acted Shakspeares able wrens. COMEDY OF ERRORS, Lamm are uisiformly paid by this Company with libe- II r ., I s Five Ads—with Songs, Duets, Glees, nod Chanows, se. rality aesel prompinuele. o lected entirely from his Ham Poems, sod Soarress. Policies "bleb expire at Christina should be resented Skin's, Doke of Ephraim, Mr. Egerton; /Steam. Mr. within fifteen du). thereafter, or the same will become void. i 0,9111411; Antiphons of P.phesos, Mr. Dunned ; Aistiplaolis of 'panne, 51r. Joan; Moak of Ephesus, Mr. W. Faeroe ; LIFE OFFICE—CAPITAL ONE MILLION. pri,miu of Syriruar. Mr. Liston; Angelo, Mr. Claremonsit Tannins assuring in this Office participate in profits, It tar Piens. Mr. Blanchard. Abbess, Mrs. FiIIICII • Ad. wittiest isecurring the liability of loss, the Proprietors hair- ,' a, Mies Steriens ; Luciaus, Miss M. Tree; L.eabia, iug undertaken all responsibility; opine which principk nu- ,' ~.n. Cerri. t menus, are the humane of Ten, Twenty, awl Thirty per Ifter which, 4111 i time, a sew Grand Romantic sad Comic t Cent. being paid in addition to the "mount assured; and cane Pantomime, called have ocean-id (when the duration of life has bent consider. . HARLEQUIN AND DON QUIXOTE; j ably prolonged) where the payment has been more than r Or, SANCHO PANZA IN HIS GLORY. double One rem assured. A Bonus, amounting fa most instances to 25 per cent., Quivtan (afterwards Don Quixote). Mr. Norma.; his Were (ann./sr& Columbine), Mies Scutt ; Soy ho Paaxa I nod in SOW to upwards of 30 per cent. on the pressing' ~ (rfirrarArda the 'Spain), Mr Grimaldi ; Nicholas (the Bar. 1 paid within the last sewn pears, ending at Michaelmas v. be.. %if Norris; Sampson Careens (afterwards Harlequin), het. lets Inert eddeel to all Policies of Assnrance effected a Mr. Eller. in this Wire fur the whole period of Life. No Entrance Money, Admission Fat, or either Official er The leer Panioosiene of Harlequin and Don Quixote will Charge, exuded. WILLIAM BURY, Sec. li. k repeated every evennale. Todatornmr, the Comedy of She Stoops to Coequer. "*Dyes A A N v D ‘u4l PORTUGAL AN I) SI Per Do:. Fine Port, from the Wood 425. 445. 465. I Brat K , tin., from ditto 525. Kart Port, from ditto sig. Old Crusisil to Sus. Um', 3 years in bottle 545. Fear Old Sherry -44 a Sorriur dull° . 48s. Aimintillailsi ditto - b2s. Vs / Old Brown ditto 545. FRENCH AND It Per Doz NIP 01.1 Caret, 70s. to 755. DAto 1815, lAfitle lirmiiage, Rouge - 9tis Besesioly, Chamberlin 1304. Low Litt . 105 s. CAPE Per Doz. Fief' Cape Madeira 24.. 265. 281 Tearriffe Old Malmsey Videnia 635 . Alba Flora (very nearer) 645. EN ISH WINES. Per nor. . 446. I Champaiirne, Sifiery - 130.. ISasuiersie, 12 years old 84*. Muselle, very fiva -80 s. Rhenish, thitu . -84 s. Huck, v , ry old . 1141 s. %% INES. _ _ Per DK. Fine dry Reel Cape . 36.. White and ItrJ Coo bm... v , ry choice - 30.. slant ia C.pe Carcamella Choice Hoek Bullies and 11,mpera, 41.. per dozen. WINES IN THE WOOD. Per P;pe,l3B Gall. Per Pipe, 110 Galt 111 J Pomo 1051. 1121 1201 I Finest Madeira, direct 1051. /loin 'tether, ditto - 125/. Choice 111.1 West India 1301. Itier Sherries. 130 Gall. Superior E ,, •t ludn 1441. lOW. 1101 120/. Fine Cope Mkeeleiras ia" I I (1015), per 401. 48/. and 521. lisicateade and Hall.llo(sheada of the above Winer at the same price pe► Pipe. WI It ITS. Pcr - . 3411. - - 38.1. Per Gon. Shandy, 5 years old - 24. nuns, 7 years old 14s. 6.1. proof 2st.. U,tlo, p. our • 17s * lid ' Hullsode Geneva -24 e. Eugl.sh Gin IN. &l. h. 12s. (.4 sumrs (/.den oust coolant Reniatt or salisfActory. itrfrirece:a. lu 1,1.50111'11g to She Public their tireohri enema Lies of 11 """*. the PKOPRIF:I•OI7.4 of the A DELPIII vAuL - rs lake so stale that this Establohnirot origiusied iw a . cun"elhip. that the legit incise prificiples of CHEAP S'LLING wire capable of .uercs.ful applie: • to She %ISE 11,74 HE; sto•se principles culoistiug sinqy is punier of capital jn.lw Iv employed sea ready ..... hey lestles , lion., by which (7 ...us of Sle tiros quality are as all Slates to lw porch...sea considerably below the average , rn "lkel Our , : all toss from hook fields is prevlsolcd, and, "WO 111 C gawk returns of property, she smallest profits fee. 1...1 , 11) It pealed, become great. r IN the aggregate than the pret es t • p.ohis, when of .how recurrrore; !pooist *dram lo the revisable snider which reader it at uner some. "'ere sad i , npnliUc, in older so ssauslaiu low prices, to sell %Ines osfes we ill 11111,1111 y, and as is sup star. ipicusly the ""es Seem t h e use of iindritised bowies, debt-woo in spun.- I'll• Th. P.optielors have at Ons tithe on sale a *cry ra. Isastee awl superior 'logic of %Ames sail Sprits, comes- Psedieg with the shove Lb.'. COIII IN CGIIINNIIIIe. 14e. principle , of their EA eblishosessl. tI.. Y lure s'lS* eluded she insersion of sues priers *hole it W continue to adverbs.. for Slur Nitre purpose of istsrsesioss, bus at which it 1ee...1.0 impossible to sell goods of reasti, Sue soilsty. Up, Adass-streri, Adelphi. W. CUATES awl Co. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPS. (From " The Quarterly Reriew.l " Englishmen may fairly be allowed to feel an objection to the present government and taws of the colooy. AVe are all of us more or lets the creatures of prejudice, and au Englishman, perhaps, feels norm so strongly as that in favour of trial by jury; he ha% been in the habit, from infancy, of bearing so much of its blessing., tlost he thinks it outset...a. sari to inquire into its merits, and sets down that as a lutist unhappy country to which it is denied.—We granted to the Dutch the exercise of their laws and their religion by capitulation; we have continued them this indulgence to the present day ; and we are not aware that any Englishman lias yet had just cease to complain of the op ;recession or itquetice of the one, or the intolerance of the other. If any such complaint occur, we doubt not it will be heard and redressed : its the mean time it must be satisfactory to the hew corners to know, that the Chief Magistrate of the district in which they are to be settled is as Eoglislimao. The fir.t step to the general iistroduct 00000 of our laws and manners will he that of introducing the Eng lirh IVe cannot help regretting that this ittwortaiit point is most unwisely save' lon ked in all our conquests; yet it might easily be effected, and without any violence to the feelings of the con quered : let but all official documents. all registers, title deeds, instruments for conveying and securing property, be mode in the English language, and the next generation will become Englishmen. " Torre are, however, two evils in the colony, which are not merely ideal—the monopoly of the East India Company, and the depreciation of the paper currency. .6 The East India Company have, from the first, :hewn themselves unfriendly towards this settle merit, because (as it is in pooled) the Governoient refused to transfer the eovereiguty of it to them ; jet it has been of infinite importance to their bound less pos,essulsas in India, and may ultimately he the safety of them. The Company have th e e xclusive privilege of supplying the colony with India a n d Citing goods, which are doled out in monthly sales by au agent staitutied at Cape Town, who takes especnrl care Lot to glut the market. The removal of thus restriction. and placing the Cape ou a foot ing with the British plantations in North America, would materially tend to raise it to an .►pulrut co. lossy, and to one of the first commercial statiwas in the universe. " The depreciated paper currency of the Cape is a very serious wild, which presses hard son all the colonials, but more especially on those in public situations with fixed salaries; and is deeply felt by all who are concerned in trade and mercantile tramcar - lions. Fllr some years past it has fluctuated [ruin 80 to 190 per Celt,. dist:omit. so that HO one tan be certain. for six months together, of the teal state of hie property. As the greater pars of ills. piper was Issued by the British Go see 00000 rut, it 'seems but reasonable that every possi ble mean. shouhl be taken, isi order to bring it back to intend voluerof five 6x-dollars to the pound surfing. Toils sill 110 doubt happen when ever the value of the exports shall exceed that of the imp .ff.; but Mole the merchant lies under the sserea.ity t,l* puidiamig bills fur ressintahcro. the evil will condone to tie felt. It might tend ire some degree to misrelate the evil, if the looney to be frond to the emigrants by the Goinftlittictit were issued w bills on sus Majesty's tmeasur). " I loving thus noticed the principal olijecii 0000 real 'Emil uu .gissary. In thee.' :un t o' of t h e Cape. It truly rensaliss fur us to debt:tiler briefly the illy.. trict iu o hitch it a proposed to ',Net tile emigrants.; mid to illtititre 10 whit talent the colotiy es capable of receiving au 4141111111111 A populations. The spot totriallril lor them, in the first inst4sice. is called by the Dutch, the ZuNreseld, ur *our. " The planes of Albany are interspersed with film lumps of vigorous brushwood, inixeil with trees of a considerable size, having all the appear ance of a gentleman's pal k in England ; and the deep ravines near the sea-coast are choked up with forests of a superior growth. The whole district is intersected by several streams, of water flowing from uurth to youth, besides a number of str.rouleis mod springs which have never been opened, or prevesited from tanning to waste. " The nearest bay to the settlement is that of Zwart-Kops. or Algoa, which though open to tits south-rant or summer winds, affords good and Life anchorage; the only inconvenience bei n g thr almost perpetual surf which rolls upon the t,e ch during their continuance. The bar of Zorn-Koos is al ternately open amid closed, but the river, within. the bank, is navigable for small vetorla tut several miles. Near its bank has recently beet, established • new town, called Unetiliage, which is also the name of the whole district, formerly a part of Graaf Reynet. Here is the residence of the local Nla l io. irate or I.milfrost. Fur the present, therefore. this place will be the general mart fur the new settlers; but as population multiplies, and the surplus pro duct increaser, some of the rivers will nu doubt lie made accessible, amid fishing towns or village* be established along the shore of Albany. The cozens of the colony every where al/timid with a variety of good esculent fish, which, except in the ha ) . near the Cape, have never been MUltStrll. S i little it,. deed do either the Hotteutots or the CelFrrr know .64 Lure about fish, tlabLireesi ihirePON• • 41 • 1 4;le •••' bat kati tttt of any kiud, not even I canoe, frnin the Cape Maim to Del ago. Bay. The boor sometimes. but very rarely, makes a party of pleasure to 'rear the moods of the rivers, and ill fusiiislied as he is with fishing tackle, lie is always successful. It is to be hoped, therefore, that g the fanli ke, about to proceed. will be found a few fishermen by profession. Besides the certainty of at, abund ant supply, they will have the advantage of obtain ing salt in any quantity from the raft-pas of Uitenbage, or indeed with. great facility by the were evaporation of sea-water. "The rivers that flow through Albany into the sea are the Sunday, the Rosjeinan, the Knreeka, the liasoo km, the Kowie. and the Great Fifth River, or Rio trlitfaiste of the Portuguese. The last is per. limps the only one that will admit vessels of hordes). Width' it is of sufficient depth mid capacity fur the I irgr•t ships of war ; but, like all the risers on this coast, its mouth is crossed by a bar of sand. We doubt, however, whether a has been exastinted since the colony cause iota our hoods: she presump tion is. that vessels of considerable burden only pass, otherwise the Puituguttse would scam , ly have record a fort at it. entrance for their protection. Should this prove to be the caw. it will be of infi nite advantage to the settler* of Alhiliy, VP a liar. bout from winch they will at all tames he able to export their produce, aire. pa open • irr,le with Mozambique. the Isle of France, and Madagascar. whetter cattle may be imported iu any quantity at a very trifling expense. these rivers tool their several branches, numerous *strings of water are met with io all the liorly wood e d d e lla, which still rem:tails, as the boors found them, lit a stale of nature. Within land. un the northward, Albany is skirted by thickets of lusurideit growth, abounding with aloes, ellpilui. bias, 410 other succulent plants, lord extruiliii4, with few imerrisptions. thirty or forty miles depth, nut Mir foot oh whielo fins ever been clear,(l._.. breast..., as the boors alleged, the milky etaphorbi is put out the lire whenever they attempted to horn the thirketr°. The few elephants that yet rionato take blinker it, slwsr coppice., in which are also found the various beasts of prey peculiar to this part Of Africa. Not moil veal. ago the ;ileitis of literally swarmed with game of all kinds; blot the number of troops which have of late been stationed thew, the norms of the Catlrrs, and above all, the Hottentots collected as a missionary rioahli.ll. mel d on the low e r port of the Kasuwk have very comialetahly thinned thew. " he general view *hidh we have taken, it is rvi.lesit that the colony offal& ample mope use all extended cultivation. Inciudiog itiete are not leas than severs millions of acres of IlikUeell. pied rod cultivable kook besides three 11111.5 that amount of all inferior **Melt( of territory capable of affording an istliorist provision for 70,000 iodustrious rod agricultural families. The lonsisfarms, its g•rpotent oecapation, aruount to meat ber to neatly 4,300 ; in quantity to eleven millions of acres. If, wader a betwr apnea. these tarsus were paicelled out. and each made to aupporl but one-troth part of the number of persons remilis.g at Guarletithal, itself mace r Itato-laress, they would give employment and maintenance to a looptil.itiou of 470.000 souls, isistead of qo.ooa. the utinuat • Bue•r's Travels i• &tethers Africa. lowing naiitiona as inust likely to meet their per. pn.e. To the northward, Zwartland. Twenty.fosir Rivers, and Picquetberg, all excellent for the col. titration of corn and wine, and in the neighbourhood of Saint Helena and Svldanha Bays—to the east. ward, the banks of the Breede River, and the plain. through which it flows from Wastrels to the sea coast, birth well adapted for the culture of grain, which can be transported to tit. Sebastian's Buy, by the said river, jaut Now, for the first time, disco. erred to be navigable by vessels of considerable burden, thirty or forty miles into the interior ! On the same cono, in the neighbourhood of Moose', PlettenheN, and Algoa Bays, where the soil is fit for any sprCle4 of culture—eind lastly, the shores of the Knysus Iferboisr, Situate about twenty miles on the Cape side of I'lettenliesg's Bay, in the nnmediate vie' • y of the only forests of timber in the whole co lusty. The eteratice into thissecure harbour is about 280 yode in width, the elrpth of water it feet, and it deepens and *islet's withief. to a spacious lake, communicating by is river with the beat part of the forest, *nil surrounded by a beautiful anal fertile country, occupied at present by two persons, one of wh ttttt is au Englishmau, who, in possession of another Marna Edgcuntlie, with his black wife, and thus or four dingy elauglite:rs, has adopted all the slosesaly hubits of a Dutch hone. A place so situated, and so admirably adapted for a dock yard, or ship.builshaig establishment, fur the'cuast and, aliolfe all, us a central mart for the case:ling trade, cannot lung remain iu its present •• We sltall'yweiatiaia hot one spot more, and chirk site a view to she* how much this neglected colony is upon to improvement, and how little its advantages appear to be understood. On the coast of the Cape peninsula, within ten miles of the c.spital, is an excellent harbour, completely lamd.locksd, and perfectly secure at all seasons of the year ( he butt sandy, with good acchorage), and capable of holallie.; at least 10 sail of the line. Such is Hoist Bay ! It abounds with a great va riety of good fish, said numerous rills from the wooded ravines on tither side uniting iu the middle, Bow in o clear and copious stream down a beautiful valley, containing at the least 3,000 acres ; the whole of which is iu the pOSSItSsIOII of one man, whose house, situated near tlw margin of the bay, is surrounded by a few roods of corn land and vitae yards; the rest being a complete wilderness, over grown with what in Ladle' would be called jangle. Thirty industrious English families, with a hun dred acres apportioned to each, would, in the course of a very few years, convert this unprofitable des stet into a perfect paradise. " It would be a wa.te or words to dwell on the political anal commercial importance of a colony so happily situated us th et of the Copt, commanding. by its position, 0 retely communicatithi with every part of the Pivilized world, and which, if deemed advisable, snighi be made the west entrepot of the eastern anal etcetera' loesnisplarter. But we cannot pass lit silence one of the beneficial result. which we anticipate Ruin the extended colunizatiou of the Capr, it sanely. that of the improved condition of the bordering Caffrey. The rz ample of au industrious populutiou of Europeans will not, we are person& ed, he thrown away on this well-disposed said fine race of men ; ou the contrary, we augur that. when they shall have adjusted their disputes among them selves, thry will cheerfully set about the cultivation 4111 f a grateful soil, not with coarse millet and bitter gourds, as heretofore. but with productions of inure inlaid and salutary nature. These people being entirely flee from idulstrous prejudices, would be ready to edibieVe the benevolent dot:tresses of ChM.. howdy ; sisal this lirld will perhaps be occupied by the Alarmism's • though we much fear that Me thodists sal* less useful character have already got the start of them. These etethusiostic ranters have spread themselves over the colony and gone beyond its limits, elocusaragnag idleness by instructing the 'anises iu their own peculiar doctrines. and im un thing el.e. as is hut too •pisarent in their filthy and wretched estaldeshmenis, o w n , ggg tt g with fl o t. tentuts still in a state sal nakedness, or in shear au clean slieep••kin cluthinz. Instead of ezpressiog their grails ode to their Clymer in lay a and wogs. the Methodist Hottentots do 'whim; but whimper. and groan. which, one of their teacher* told Mr. Latrolw. • was COosidetril as a vigil of MlMlC floc' by the power of the woral,•—• it gh I don't think,' Paid a Ilaltentat In th s that there is any great penal sia our grutisong SO ea Should the Cie es !lowa ver, coin tory to iise rtt- Isee•tativai, i• 1111 l tinge to rumuili d e nei l st i vaason She IWO Settle ras, dour tesiaio expolson fouls the plata* sal the co st and brims.' the useminains will mimosa. ray lor the consequence. Thr poowsmon of this comitty interteninebetweris thee Great Fish River mot U logos Hat . Anted by a sea•elsast of about sin hundred miles, has showy* tempted the cupidity of the Mulch bou.s. A party of these people, who to give the appearance of a turban. Their Euro pean and Hindoo features made it picilsable that they were the mixed descendant+ of wine unfortu nate people who had•beeu wrecked on the coast which seemed afterwards to be put out of douht by the appearance of three old white Women, who, Imre ever, could give no account of themselves, havoig in all probability been children *hen wrecked. The noinher consisted of 'West four hundred ; they hsd extensive gardens of millet, leisife, sugar-caue plantations, sweet potatoes, and other fruits and be getable', with some cattle, and *mitered to he liv ing in quiet and comfort ; which furnidies uu sli4lit proof of the inoffensive conduct and character of the eaffres. " The Dutch pretend (but we are sure the Eng lish will set up no such clam►) that this lwautifial country belongs. by purchase. to the colony. Their historian. Kolbe. we recollect, swamis the same thing. and says, that their High Nligl ' .ises rave 30,000 guilders (1,0000 worth of toys for the whole country, from Mussel lLiy to Mozlisthique. that is to say, about 300,000 square miles ! Ther might, just as well, hare extended their purchase to the Straits of Bahelmandel. " But it is not the Dutch only who hare coveted the CalTre country. The same lied.meile Stow, whom we mentioned before°, strongly recommend ed to Mr. President Adams the formation of a set. tletuent in • country which, lie lays, • abounds ne timber or the best quality ; poos.esses many exce t l. lent harbours; is blessed aids the richest pastur age, that feeds innumerable herds of the finest cattle ; whose lanai, during the season favourable to vegetation, are carpetted with nowt,. that per rouse the sarrountlisag atmosphere ; and %V i)0.4. shores are frequented by fish of every quality and o!escriptiosu' At that tune, however, the Amesicasa Government had Hut extended its ambisious views =t r f • its sawn Matinee* ; tut new, Mlien die" to he isrowling shoot in ear's of forei,res establishments, in the West Indies, the Aletliter rnesean, the Pacific, and on the western coast of Africa, we should not be greatly surprised if they discovered the Portuguese settlement of Delagun Boy to be convenient for their commercial eater. course with India and Chins. Di int/ions !-- , Though we du not much admire the Portuguese syst.m of colonization, we yet prefer it to that of America, as exemplified by t David Porter, E.q ' (the only specimen with which we are acquaint.c) at Nomaliervale, where that redoubled commander pest to death one part of the inhabitants iu order to obtain a plea for plundering the rest." • See p. 230.—Beajawsia has bee, rather searsily de.i;t with by oar critics—Not saddled wish prusiouocisic h.• Narrative a mere fable, they have eves deaird she txis.- ewe of the poor ono, as well as of the rued ship lb-- cafes. Now we how somirthieg of Captais Stout. lie war. so lee sure, very illiterate, out to say ignownit, and MUCh derfully apt to wander into those • beautiful obliquities' is point of fact, for which the mercantile marine of his may. try is so justly celebrated; but be certainly did out demise to be altogether sanihilated. We ens assure oar sceptical brethren, that we not owly whammed the appearance of Captain Stout sad some of his crew at the Cape, hot that we saw, with oar 01V4 eyes, the wreck of di • lien-saes 0.4 sheerest of Oared% and no the precise sent indicat.d ly the Captain : his testimony, thrieffsre, to the general a pia a.. sacra the euratry, sad hr the humanity of the CatLcs. is bey'./ the possibility of gaged's. GEM. D'EVIREUX'S ICAPEDITION. [From the" Belfast Chromicle."] MILPAST. Dec. 22.—0 n Sunday, the Nicholai Pu&frisch arrived in the Belfast Lough, from Dublin, bound for South America', and landed about one hundred men on the Bangor sod Cult'', shores. The account there men give is, that, after sailing from 'Dublin, they were put on short allowance, and were so emu tied in the vessel, th a t they could not exist; that they - guested of Colonel Power. either that should get better treatment, or be sent The latter was complied with, the Colonel drring them to be stripped of their j4c! Their story, however, is very improbable, in many instances, totally false, as we 114' tained front various sources. Yesterday, Lyster waited on us with a letter lie had from Colonel Power, which is annexed, accouitt of the occurrence, and of the provisluos un board ; this he is read; to any person who will calf Oso The following is the letter of Colontl " Oa beard Ike Nieholai. Belfast December 20, 1819. " My Dams CoLosst.--ne disaireraide which have l6ken place sines we left Ihstr:in, SO mod ;ow this held hat tree alsteasesit of it'. in. ea freak Deakin" au Friday niche last, *Suitt 04 . 1fr0 The asea appeared happy awl co...ruled wait Meg evening, 'Ara nemly of Mese (about sir . eetack) rashed ep front halves% den kit, and ci he pet on shore. I histaelly Jeatao.ir.l their Coglidile id highly improper sad eulreronime ply was, that the ship as. leaky awl u awl meat to keep at 6.6: Sissy I permitted Sr giving me how I. evasion nigh 11 ` they bed their informatioa front all the stators; haematite,. they said, um., he trav, as the 'saws KIM hell declared they Wlll4lll out rename are board tee week she obi. farther those the Nearest port. ' three for the night. by ;musing th em. Old as Wilbed to leave the abtj shawls. have 'deity, N TION. t Nicho!ai gh, froth id landed rigor mid give 114 wt rt pet ed or the L they re- tit . alaipry or Oil bilOffr• lel first Of. Acts , . B.T. le, cod OA, 14V! eICM. V, CoSoiled received giving an 11.4 a I St dy to biauw Power : +at Ilubuer. • occurrence% iwiti la . We sari. eves reeler b. the follow- Mour of .ix t•• r reasons fir I p t t Thou re- bate imjerr.l. Mom. bring I ". 1 ' tbesi, diet !camel which radon thew- board Writer. t. I pacariad 7 4 `, at •• sway Ay, si a •