The Sun. — London, England, 1824-01-14 00:00:00

E LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extract? from the Morning Poper3, jun. 14. [MOIUMIG lIONICLE.I The King of Spain has issued an edict, re vtal;ing .things 'in his Kingdom of the Indies e:ta . rtly its the situation in which they were previous to ]B'2o ; prefaced by a summary of the beneffts which the world and the Christian Religion have derived from the efforts of the Allies in his favour; Of course, all traces of what-hag been done, in the interim will \anish chenever this fiat makes its appearance in the Now Wtirld. The Etailte of Monday contains this very important document. The sleurnal des DRazts has been at pains to extract a long article from the Oracle de Bruxelles, con mining a highly coloured description of the lion- Ashing state of France. One paragraph of this Article has reference to the Marine, rather an in teresting subject at this moment The Marine, though the state of peace of Europe, and he spirit which animates all its Cabinets, announces, that its services will not be necessary for a long time, receives every lieSh additions. Undoubtedly, France ought not to in spire her.neighbours with fears, but she ought not to Lel any Oil their account. From the happy situation in which Provi dence has plaCed her, it belongs to her, both as a Continental Tower and as a Maritime Power, to hold the balance even :among the States of Europe." The French Government manifests an anxiety to be able, as a maritime power, to hold the balance even among the states of Europe ; that is to say, to have a navy. equal to that of England, for there is no.other maritime power of any mo ment at present. We can have nothing to say to this. If the French can keep up as large a naval force as ourselies„and have the wish to do so, of course they will increase their marine. We cannot prevent them any more than we can prevent the Americans from building ships of war. [MORNING POST.] We received lust night, by express, Paris Papers to the 19. th inst., and the Etoile of Mon day. They have brought two Ordinances or Decrees of a very different nature,: the one issued by _the French Monarch, and the other by the King of Spain. It will be recollected that the Archbishop of Toulouse, in his eagerness to serve the party to which he belongs, lately published a pastoral letter, in which he made religion sub servient to politics, and degraded it into an engine to influence the elections. The Liberal Papers immediately complained of this undue interference on the part of the Clergy, and the manifestation o f p u bli c o pinion was so strong against it, that the subject was laid before the Council of State, who thought it prudent in the present juncture to adapt the same view of the question as the people. It made a report to this effect, and the result has been a Royal Ordi fiance, suppiessing . the Pastoral 'Letter, as " con- . taining propositions contrary to public law, to the laws of the kingdom, and to the prerogative and indepen.dence oi the Crown." That this measure will give great offence to the Ultras, and will confirm them in the opinion that the assertions of the Conititutionnel respecting the motives which have, occasioned the dissolution of the Chamber were not quite unfounded, no doubt can be en tertained. 1 t will, however, be generally grate ful to the nation as a mark of right feeling on the part of the Government, and will probably gain it more votes than the whole body of the Ultras could procure. [THE TIMES.] A very great,and we believe perfectly ground less alarm, was created yesterday in the City, i tt consequence of the arrival of intelligence by the packet from Lisbon, which sailed on the 30th " that all the dock-yards of the Tagus were " in a state of great ectivity,and that orders had " been issued for the repair and equipment of all " the ships of war then in the port of Lisbon."— This was a state .of things calculated to inspire apprehension into the. timid or ill-informed, and therefore gave rise to various rumours, invented to account for the preparations supposed to be rtiaking by the Portuguese Government. It was asserted, that no less an enterprise was meditated thau the re-conquest of the Bra- ails ; and as the armament fitting out was obviously inadequate to that purpose, it was added that Count Palmella was forthwith to pro ceed on a special mission to Great Britain, to so licit further aid ; and, failing there of success, he• was to repair with a similar application to the Court of France. Among the speculators of the Morley Market, this absurd story for a short period obtained credence, and caused a depres sion both in the English and Foreign Securities. The real truth of the affair turns out to be, on consulting •the letters of the best-informed Lis bon merchants corresponding with this country, that the Portuguese Government has determined on placing the navy generally, which had been much neglected, 'in a state of better repair ; and that a few ships . of war are fitting out to be em ployed off the Cape de Verd islands, for their pro tection' against the Brazilian privateers, which were daily increasing in numbers and audacity, to thu great annoyance and detriment of the Por tuguese commerce. The Portuguese Ministry, it is said, and the fact need. scarcely be repeated, are extremely anxious, by negotiation, intrigue, ormediation Of some Other Power, to regain their old-footing in Brazil ; but since the return of Madeira. from. Bahia, so insane a project as that of reconquering the country by force of arms has never entered into their contemplation. [aluTrsu PRESS.; Ferdinand'afirat manifesto against the emanci pated*Colonies of 'Spain was issued at Madrid On tile:2d.' ft affects to legislate for these once proud' dependencies as unlimitedly as in the days of his 'ancestor, Philip of Bonrbon, When Spain exercised unbounded_COritroul in the New World. d o c t mwn't has been issued, we are con vinced, at the . suggestion of Di Borgo and the FrenCK,Cabinet; and has been some time prepared. 13x. it Hwretched despot, who now tram ples on. Spain, with scarce a foot .or territory in the:New World; •declates, that the political. con stitution of the Spanish Monarchy is for ever abolished in his dominions in America; and, like the " Thrones, dominatious, princedoms, virtues, powers, " If these magnific titles yet remain " Not merely titular," which we find in Milton, Ferdinand calls on " his " Viceroys, Courts of Justice, Captains-Genece, Governors and Intendants, and charges 'Vie " Most Reverend Archbishops, Deans, and Chap "' ters of the metropolitan churches and• cathe drals of his kingdoms of the Indies and the " Philippines, to execute, each as far as they are " concerned, his Royal will." The raving of the Bed lamite in his cell, who fancies himself al i Monarch, and crowns his fevered head with straw, is not more impotent than this decree of the Spanish tyrant, as regards all Southern Ame rica. These provinces have been long indepen dent republics. " The political constitution of the Spanish Monarchy," denounced by this Mani- H festo, never existed there at all ; the framers of this document knew that well : but this is only a pretext; the real object is an assumption of au thority over America ; and this decree is in tended, we have no doubt, as the herald of some new attempt by Ferdinand and his allies on those shores. The deep designs of France and Russia on the New World are dissembled, but not abandoned ; and it is now our decided impres sion, that nothing but the strongest menaces of armed opposition by Great Britain and America will prevent their immediate execution. En feebled Spain, of herself, is utterly impotent; any squadron sailing from Cadiz will be, in effect, French. [NEW TIMES.] Chilian and Colombian Bonds have both ra pidly advanced within these few days,but they now appear to be receding. The closing price of the latter is quoted at 64-1 ; but our City informant states, that before the business of the day termi nated there was some difficulty in procuring for them 631. The business transacted in the other foreign securities yesterday was unimportant.— The absurd argument has met with universal de rision, that because the French Government in 1823 marched an army into Spain, where they knew that there was no force to oppose them, which if they had not done they would have had conspiracies and insurrections at home ; therefore they will engage in a naval war against Great Lritain and the two Americas, which three Powers form an irresistible union on the sea, and this when France has no direct interest in any such contest. The mere statement of so preposterous an opinion is its confutation. But then to he sure it is advanced by a Journalist who never was wrong in his former speculations —witness the retreat behind the Ebro! [MORNING LIERAI.D.] The French Opposition Journals intimate broadly that the King. o f France finds the Ultra Party going too fast, and that it was his personal desire, rather than that of the Ministers, to dissolve the Chambers, in order to obtain a ma jority of more moderate men. There is one fact which countenances the opinion that Louis the Eighteenth is disposed to restrain this party — We have already alluded t o a Pastoral Letter of one of the new French Cardinals, Archbishop of Toulouse, which put for ward pretensions for the French Clergy and the See of Rome, inconsistent with th e charter, and with the independence of th * Gallican Church. This pastoral letter has been taken to account by the Council of State, and an order made for its suppression, w hich, of course, is a distinct censure upon the Cardinal. There is but little intelligence from Spain; but from that little even, it is clear that the country is in a distracted and deplorable state. —The Spanish Ministry is described a s on t h e eve of falling. M. Casa-Erujo, it "'ass already known, had retired ; and the Ex-Minister and Ex-Confessor, Saez, had returned to Madrid. —His appearance in the capital proves his re storation to favour, as, without the ltovkl per mission, it would have been a high crime. The existing Ministry has'done literally nothing. I t is true that its duration has been brief, and that Spain is in a state almost beyond redemption.— Saez, however, if he succeeds, will not incur the reproach of doing nothing. The only obstacle which he encounters is stated to proceed from the foreign Ambassadors at Madrid. MELANCHOLY DEATH.-OR Saturday evening last the following event happened :—Mr. PRIOR, of Clapham, an eminent surgeon, &c. there, had been attending the .last moments of one of his patients ; he stopped an hour after to console the widow, and then went home in his carriage. Find ing himself unwell, he walked up stairs, sent for his wife and partner, and on Mrs P. entering the room, he said, " My d er ,r, lam dying." It was too true, he had burst a blood vessel, and died in a quarter of an hour after the declaration. Ile Was a delicate man, but a useful one to rich and poor : in the midst of an extensive practice, and the meridian of life, he has left a wife and family; he was much respected. MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—The following is a fuller account than the one before published This city has been kept in a state of painful excitement during the past week, by the sudden and mysterious disappearance of a respecta ble professional gentleman, Mr. Pierce, Solicitor of this City, and Partner in the highly respectable firm of Palmer and Pierce, for which nothing that hasyet transpired has been capable of ac counting. Apprehensions of the mist awful and distressing Mt ture are entertained by his family and friends, and large rewards haVe been offered for the discovery of the body, dead or alive. It appears that fie dined on Saturday se'nnight with a friend in Park-street, whom he left about one o'clock on Sunday morning to return home. Rumour, with her hundred tongues, has pre sented him in various places during the next hour; but nothing we believe, has yet been discovered on which any reliance can be placed. On . Sunday his hat was discovered in the float, which excited the - most painful anxiety lest his body Wight also be there • .but, although the water was exhausted, there was not the slightest trace of the corpse. It has been said, but we cannot vouch for the authenticity of the report, that two individuali called'on the mother of Mr. Pierce, and told her she need be . undor no anxiety for her son. The sin gularity of such a communication being made without leading to some further dischisnre, renders the story highly improbable. —A man called at the residence of Mr. Lean, banker, in Bell , Vue, on Wednesday lase, and dein - ended what recompense would be given for the discovery of Mr. Pierce. Mr. bean was from home, but his family instantly sent for him ; before he arrived, however, the Man bee me iinpatient and departed.__ It is singular that assistance' was not immediately obtained to detain this man ; for it - must be evident : that any one who is in possession of information, and does not disclose it, is accessory to the absence, whatever may be the cause of it. Mr. bean his published a hand-bill, calling on this individual to repeat his visit ; but we trust a lessOn will have ' been, taughtby the recent dreadful events in Hertfordshire, which will prevent, hopes beingeiCite3 in individuals that may interfere with the even course Of justice. We heard late last night (Sunday) that a clue hati'beeti sent to Mr. Palm:er,'Whieh might kid to the diScoverv' of Mr Piera ;. but on m alr.ug further in qu i r Y, do such information had been redeived.'%--(BritiorAter(uey.) The EMIGRANTS of SOUTH AFRICA. (From the Morning Chronicle.) There has been communicated to us a " Report of the Committee of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Settlers in South Africa, with the Re solutions passed and Speeches delivered at a Ge neral Meeting, held at Cape Town, September 17, 1823, to which is subjoined an Appendix of Letters, and other Documents illustrative of the present condition of the Settlers." Our limits will not allow us to give insertion, at this time, to the whole of this publication, which has been sent to England with a view of exciting the at tention of the benevolent to the distressed condi tion of the Settlers, with a view of obtaining as sistance. That the actual condition of the set tlement may be seen, we insert the Appendix, consisting of Letters and Documents, and a part of the speech of Dr. Phillip : The two following letters were written by gentlemen who are both heads of respectable parties, and who had lived in genteel and com fortable circumstances in their native country : " GRAHAM'S Towx, DEC. 23, 1822.—1 received your let ter, and am glad that some one thinks it worth while to in quire after so wretched a being as myself. I am sorry to tell you our dear little Matilda is no more ; she was with me while reaping some barley, when I told her to go to the house to bring me some water to drink ; she ran off, and fell on one of those vile reptiles that abound in this part of the globe, and was stung. I attended my sweet babe for seven days and nights, during which she was in the greatest agony, until mortification took place. She then recovered her senses— prayed for her poor mamma and papa, and expired quit easy, on Tuesday, at four o'clock. She was a lovely child, only four years old : all my misfortunes are nothing compared to this ; she was our last and only child. " You ask me for an account of our situation ; which I will give you, and 1 believe it is applicable to all the settlers, as re gards our crops and prospect of food for the ensuing year. My wheat, two months ago the most promising I ever saw in any country, is now cut clown and in heaps for burning, before we plough the ground again. The rust has utterly destroyed it ; not a grain have we saved. My barley, from the drought, and a grub which attacks the hla(le just under the surface, pro duced little more than 1 sowed: My Indian corn, very much injured by the caterpillar ; cabbages destroyed by the lice; the beans all scorched with the hot winds ; and carrots run to seed : the potatoes are good; but I have but a small quantity. Our cows are all dry for want of grass; not the least appearance of verdure as far as the eye can reach. Nothing but one great wilderness of faded grass something resembling a couchy fallow in England. On Saturday, whilst watching by the sick-bed of my dear little girl, I was startled by the cry of wild dogs.(a) I ran to the window, and saw about 30 of those ferocious animals; before I could drive them off, they killed 20 of my flock, which consisted of 27 in all. I stood for a moment thinking of my misery—my dying child—my blasted crops--my scattered and ruined flock. God's will be done ! I have need of fortitude to bear up against such accumulated misery. Farewell." " Gusitharw's Tows, JAN - . 28, 1823.—We are all herestrug gling in the seine way in which you left us, or rather worse; our prospects being still more gloomy, as the crops have again very generally failed in this part of the country. We hav e also this season been troubled with a new enemy —the caterpillars and locusts have been so numerous, that our gardens are totally destroyed. I took the greatest care of mine, and the prospect of its producing something cheered us a little ; but this unexpected visitation has thrown a complete d amp on our exertions. The season has been so dry, that many farmers in the Graaff-Reynet district have been obliged ' to leave their places for want of water. Several whom I know here are forced to send three miles for what water they use for domestic purposes. Bread is now quite out of the question ; the scanty allowance of half a pound of rice is all we get. We feel much the want of vegetables, sometimes being und er t h e necessity of living for several clays on meat alone. The Caffres are very troublesome ; they lately stole 24 head of oxen from me : b u t misfortune h as s o long been my companion, th at we begin to be reconciled to each other." The next two extracts Are selected from letters nosy before Ith e Conunittee, and are written by a gentleman who formerly held a Captain's commission in his Majesty's service. They are addressed to a private friend, who had collected a small subscription for him in Cape Town : " FEB. 17, 1823._T0 my friends, and the friends of huma nity, I am indebted, I may say, for the existence of myself and family ; for really, but for their kind interference, we must have perished. If I could only see any kind of bread of say own growing, I should be happy. , Tis now nearly three months since we had any bread to eat, and indeed, very little rice. If I could any way get a b a g of meal, it would be a great relief. " I am very sorry to be so troublesome : however, necessity compels me to do what my nature somewhat recoils at. We are very badly off for breakfast, which now usually consists o f a bit of fried cabbage, or pumpkin s t e wed. If we once again get bread we will enjoy it sweetly.) , " MAY 23, 1823. —Every necessary is so extravagant in Gra ham's Town, that it is impossible to come at clothing. MY. sons and myself are very naked, and th e weather is now exces sively cold. If I could but get th e price of a pair of new wheels for my waggon, I would put m and he wo u ld ea rn a little by drawingson J— on the road, loads for the shopkeepers in Graham's Town. The calico will be a great relief when it arrives. A whole shirt will now be a " T eat luxury. thatN:ae ": aursemaitilcp, w res i e li n e t h a w s a b s a a d g ly reat part of our support, are off ' a s ever. The four cows dry, owing to a disease now prevailing among the cattle throughout the c ountry. MS. Jour na l o f M r . F-- The foll ow i ng i n teresting passages are extracted from the l o i o s I: 4 ed locations many of in (a gentlem an we ll known to several Members of th e Committee), who travelled through the Engs the iS facts which lie rel a t es : larch and April l a S t, an d personally wi t_ " Mancii 31.—Visited Scanlarns party.—There are only. three families remaining here, out of seven of which it origi nally consisted. They were all, but one, shoemakers, and might have obtained plenty of employment among the settlers, were it not that there is not one in twenty who has now money sufficient to purchase a pair of shoes; and in fact, the -settlers are generally found without them, These people have still a few cattle, but have lost many by the Caffres. Indian corn and • pumpkins are their only produce." " APRIL I.—Mr. Mandy informed me that many in his neighbourhood were in the greatest distress, and t hat some had killed their last cow for food." ". Bailie's party.—Mr. Adams who is head of one division of this party i i n fo r med me, that there were only thirteen or fourteen famlies now remaining on the location, out of the whole of thi s l arge s ettlement. He added that there was much ' distress a mo n g t h ose who remained • and instanced one person of the n ame o f H ------, who had formerly been in good cir cumstances, but who, from the failure of every other resource, had that day been forced to go to Graham's Town, to sell some of the small remaining part of his clothes to keep himself rnd his family from starving, for absolute want." " APRIL 3 . —Visited Smith and Coke's parties. Three per sons belonging to these two parties had some wheat grown this year; and at one of their houses Fate the first and last bread that I met with in Albany, made from wheat grown by any settler. A few of the other settlers have bought some of this wheat for seed, at two shillngs per pound." " It is most distressing to see the husband and wife, with scarcely any thing to cover them, and their children in the same condition, lying on the ground on the outside of-their miserable huts, roasting a few heads of Indian corn, probably the only food they have. Many have nothing hut pumpkins. One fa mily of the name of H , had not tasted butcher's meat, nor I believe bread, for about three months; and their chil dren were running about without clothes. As for shoes or stockings, they are seldom to be seen on either old or young. " I am sorry to be obliged to remark, that all that honest boldness of character, so conspicuous in the yeomanry and la bourers Of England, seems to have left these wretched Emi grants; and they appear to meet their disappointments and misfortunes with an indifference bordering,on despair." " Hyman and Ford's party are in a truly miserable plight, with scarcely any thing to eat, but a few vegetables. I here saw an aged couple in almost a starving condition. On going into their hut, I found the poor woman boiling a little pumpkin soup, which was mixed with some milk. She said this was the only food they had; and their wretched dwelling was neither wind nor water-tight. " At a little distance I met what had once been, as I was told, a fine hearty-looking young woman, but so miserably emaciated—apparently about twenty-four or twenty-five years of age. She was leading one child, another was following, and a third was on her arm; they were all without shoes or stock ings. The woman's dress (if such it could be called), 'consist ed of the remains of an old tent tied about her : ths , children were clad in the same manner ; and the canvas appeared so rotten, that it would scarcely hang on them." ". APRIL 4.—On reaching Wilson's party, we met with many persons who had formerly been in a respectable, situation of life in England, and had brought out some property, with them. 'This is the description of people who have suffered the greatest privations and calamities. spoke to one or two respectable women, who gave me a more lively idea of their melancholy situation, by replying to me in a manner that im mediately convinced me that they had been well educated, and brought up in good society ; though they now appeared to be half starved, and almost broken-hearted, with their persons neglected, and in rags. At this place their gardcna had gene rally failed, and the corn altogether. " APR 6.—Captain —, and his two sons, were without shoes or stockings ; and, actually, without sufficient clothing of any kind to cover their naked limbs. The corn had totally failed from blight, and their garden had scarcely produced any thing, in consequence of drought and caterpillars." " Mrs. Currie (who has a shop at Bathurst) told me, that though almost every settler was in the greatest distress for want of the common necessaries of life; and though the articles she sells are chiefly of this description, yet, there was almost no demand; because not one in fifty had a single six dollar to ex pend. Such, however, she added, was the distress of some, that she could not help giving credit, though with little or no pros pect of ever being rapid." The remaining selections have been furnished to the Secre tary from different most respectable quarters. The first is extracted from a letter addressed to Mr. T. Prin gle, by a Medical Officer on the Caffer Frontier, and dated August 29, 1823.‘ " During my recent stay at —, I had opportunities of see ing a good deal of the actual state of the settlers in Albany ; and I can truly declare, I never witnessed so much poverty and misery before. Whilst your friends on the Bavian River are reported to be in comparative comfort and prosperity, our coun trymen in the Zuurefveldt are without the necessaries of life.(b) Diseases too was amongst them, and some families presented a deplorable picture." The next is also taken from a private letter addressed to a gentleman now in Cape Town. It is written. by an individual of high character and connections, and who has honourably held the office of Justice of the Peace in England, and that of Heemraad in South Africa. " SEPT. 1, 18:13.—My family are this day without bread, and I can procure none in Graham's Town, at any price. Rice s also very dear and scarce. Now, in our ourth year, our pri vations are greater than ever. The spring-bucks are increasing so much, that all my own corn and my nearest neighbour's on the plain has been entirely eaten down. My people are obliged to take their turns in watching them all night. Barker and Biggar have severally lost 30 and 40 head of cattle last week, by the Callers. Stanly, all his yesterday." The same gentleman, on the Bth of September, says : " Before our present crop is ripe, much distress will be felt for want of food. It is really lamentable to hear of and witness the distress that now prevails from this cause.—A poor Irish man told me to-day, that many families, besides his own, were living, like the soldiers' horses—on green forage ;' for he had eaten nothing during the last two (lays, but lettuces and leeks ! Times are so hard that we cannot employ labourers." . . In a communication dated Sept. 2 7, we have the following statement from the same correspondent : " I was yesterday asked to join in a petition to Government to send down Indian corn for seed to the settlers, as it cannot be produced here. 1 have been this week at the Bowie with ) toricey o frrn two before.oithelitt w little vessel as f (t o l r ie . whichet flour came o r and in a da tunate in getting one bag of brown rice for my share, for which I paid 20 rds. The whole of her cargo was flour and Gmoyo waggon,d I Intent) t n rice, and was disposed of in the boat as it was landed ; and umbers went away without a morsel, declaring that their fa. milies at home were without grain of any kind. It was, in deed, most pitiable to witness the disappointment of those who had hoarded up a few dollars for this arrival, and returned empty. I saw some of Thornhill's, Smith's, Cock's, the Not tingham's, Wilson's, Bra dsh aw s , Southey's, and Holder's parties, to all of whom I put the questio n , w h et h er t h ey cou ld spare me half a mu;tl or so of Indian corn ? Th e universa l reply was, 'We have none for our own use— we h ave no t even Wight is very prev a l en t b ot h i n rye an d so lid enough for seed.' str:wlwlleieruat,st or r it b I sincerely hope they will not be materially hurt. All the other forward wheats have suffered as usual— nothing rema ns of them." Another gentleman, whose high respectability and moderate sentiments are also well known to the Committee, writes to a friend on the 20th of September, as follows:_ " I am not one who wish to encourage the reports of gene ral distress for food; hut to say that the Settlers have plenty, is too barefaced. I believe very few have sufficient Indian corn for seed. Applications are m a d e to me f rom a ll quarters f or it, as I ha ppen to have a li tt l e to spare. Wi th respect to our crops—the Cape wheat has entirely failed ; the solid straw, or Bengal wheat, I trust, will answer, and experience has taught the settlers, that they must plant plenty of Indian corn and pumpkins. Should these succeed, bread will not be absolutely wanted. But the most serious thing is the distress occasioned by the Caffers taking the mulch cows. Numbers of little far mers who had got together 20 or 30 cows, and were thereby enabled to support their families, and sell butter sufficient to s p a u: a c g h e a s s , e barntdadc,o lnialypeelbleeceintodepqruivitedthoefirthloeciratliiotrtllae,satoncdksbeeykthemese. ployment in Graham's Town." Mr. Collis, Proprietor of the only mill hitherto established I in the new settlements, states ' in a note dated 29th Sept.:— " That no wheat grown by any Settler had ever yet been brought to be ground at his mill ; but that it had been partly occupied up to the end of July last, in grinding barley, Indian corn, and a little rye, reaped by Settlers last season. Since that period not six muids of grain of any sort had been receiv ed into the mill ; and out of that (he adds) several persons have taken back maize for seed ;" so it is evident there is none in hand to grind." The correspondent referred to at page 2 7, continues on the 30th September:— " The report that the settlers have had abundant crops of Indian corn, or that they have now any tolerable supply re maining, is utterly untrue. It is now selling at one shilling ( English), per quart, for seed. Since 1 came from home, lam sorry to find that the prospects for harvest are worse ; rust and drought are destroying every thing. The Coffers continue un commonly active. Pigot, Cooper, Beater, Delport, Erasnnis, and Vandyke, have all lost cattle. If we have not effectual relief in a very short time, we must quit our !locations. It is become really distressing and alarming. Oh, for Van Dieman's Land? I am heartily sick of it, and dread being a moment from home on account of the Coffers." Tha Rev. Dr. Philip, in moving that the Report be received an d printed, addressed the Meeting as follows : " 'While I congratulate this Meeting on the talentand respec tability with which I see myself surrounded—on the import ance of the object for which we are assembled—and the. cha racter of the Report which has just been read—l cannot help inquiring how it happens, that we are so thinly attended at our General Meetings : that we have so few subscribers ; and that on such an -extensive field held out to our cultivation, cur operations should have been so limited ? I hope I shall be ex cused if I take up a small portion of your time, on the present occasion, on this question. " Shall I be told there is no surplus of misery among our countrymen unprovided fbr Ido not stand here on this oc casion as the accuser of the Colonial Government, nor of the Local Authorities of the Colony; but we may certainly allow the possibility of of distress; without any reflection upon any man, or any class of men. Reasoning a priori, I maintain his impossible to remove 5,000 men from their native country, and plant them in any other country under Heaven, without in volving a vast portion of suffering. For ar, illustration. of this subject, we have only to look • to the different emigrations to America in the first colonization of that country. Many of the first settlers suffered greatly, and some whole parties pe rished fbr want of the nacessaries of life, on spots that are now supporting a dense population. The history of the Sierra Leone Settlement is well known, Many lives were lost, and much pro perty sunk before the experiment afforded any rational prospect of success. The colonization of New Holland is also a case in point. During the early period of that Settlement, the Colo nists were often in the greatest distress. Several times they were tinder the painful apprehension of death by famine.— For six years they continued to receive a great part of their supplies from Batavia, from India, and from England, at con siderable expense to the mother country. " From 1550 to 1570, including the first twenty years of the history of this Colony, although the number of the first Settlers was not one-third of' the number landed in Albany, it cost the Dutch East India Company twenty millions of gilders.— Though.it is not my intention at present to attempt to account for the facts, yet it may be remarked, that there seems to be something in a virgin soil . unfavourable to the support of human life; and it seems to be with men as with vegetables, —they must suffer after being transplanted, before they can take root. " One circumstance may be mentioned, in passing, which has added to the distress of the Settlers. In the emigrations constantly taking place to America, the emigrants having land ed at New York, Boston, Quebec, or some large town, find employment, assistance, or the means of subsistence in the countries through which they pass, and from the Colonists settled in the immediate neighbourhood of their locations ; but in the late emigration to this colony, we have between four and five thousand people conducted at once to a coun try possessed by a few Dutch Boors, who, in case of any failure, of the, Emigrants' hopes, could give them no assist ance. " Arocng other means employed to give an unfavourable impression of the Settlers, a charge of Radicalism was at tempted to be fixed upon them. In such a body of people there are, no doubt, many worthiest and discontented individuals ; but I can aver, from my own personal knowledge—and I have visited their different locationsHthat I never met with an in stance where there was lest reason for this charge applied to the people as a body, than in the present case. '%hat they are at this- moment I will - not presume to say; but in the latter end of 1821, I was surprised to find so few persons of this de scription among them. " Shall we be told, to set aside their claims on our benevo lence, that they want industry ? If, after the failure of so many crops, they neglect to cultivate the soil to the full extent of the credit they may have given them for physical energies, is it matter. of surprise ? They cannot command the clouds of Heaven to rain upon their fields ; they cannot raise the water from the deep ravines to which it is confined, to irrigate their gardens ; they cannot arrest Omnipotence, and stop the pro gress of that blight, which, through successive years, has destroyed the promise of the harvest. And, if under the re peated strokes of the Almighty, the mind loses its tone, when nothing but the powerful aids of Religion can prevent de pression, and stimulate to perseverance, the unhappy suf ferers are more entitled to our sympathy than deserving of censure. " The claims of our unhappy countrymen upon our sym pathy, are of more than an ordinary character. The writers of elegant fiction have been accused of injuring the cause of benevolence, by dressing it out in all the bewitching enchant.. ments of eloquence, All is beauty to the eye, and harmony to the ear.' Nothing is seen but pictures of felicity, and no thing is heard but the pleasing whispers of gratitude and af fection. The reader is carried along by soft and delightful representation of virtue. He accompanies his hero through all the fancied varieties of his history. He goes along with him to the cottage of poverty and disease, surrounded, as he may suppose, with all the charms of rural seclusion, where the murmurs of an adjoining rivulet accord with the finer sensi bilities of the mind. He enters the enchanting retirement, an meets with a picture of distress, adorned with all the fascina tions of romance. Perhaps a meritorious officer, who has fought the battles of his country, is languishing on the bed of affliction, without the means of subsistence, and without an attendant, save a son of tender years, to sympathize with him in his dis tress, and whose helpless years and destitute condition add poignancy to his grief. Perhaps, in the midst of a barren wil derness, and surrounded with wild beasts, he unexpected meets a female, whose slender form, whose elegant motien,- whose sudden confusion, and whose instant attempt to escape excite the most powerful curiosity. She flies to allele his fur ther inquiries: he follows, and, entering a miserable hut, dig. , covers himself an unwelcome intruder; lie apologizes—lie- is shocked—he finds the inmate of this humble shed invested with every female grace : he felicitates himself on his good for tune : his tears flow, his heart dilates with all the luxury of tenderness : the visions of Paradise play before his fancy;' his whole soul is absorbed in plans that embrace the future felicity of this interesting family : he gives his last shilling, and imparts it with so much delicacy, that he makes them feel that he is receiving, not conferring, a favour. "'The lovers of romance—the epicures of feeling can have no pretext for treating the objects now calling for their sym pathy with indifference, for want of these romantic accompa niments. The admirers of this sort of fictitious history; our modern sentimentalists, who revel in all the soft delusions of an ideal philanthropy, may see all the high-wrought fiction of the romantic tale—all the imagery of the poet's song,' ree duced to sober reality ; if we exclude from the picture the be nevolence which wipes the tear from the eye of distress— which affords r e li e f t o th e necess i tous, and restores to so ciety and happiness the destitute sufferers. Ilere we have distress attended by all the attractions that ever fancy con ferred upon fiction. And what is the sympathy this distress calls forth ? We are told that the sufferers are Radicals; that they are worthless people; or that the alleged distress does not exist. To this unsupported assertion I oppose incontrovertible facts; I oppose a number of letters from the west respectable individuals in Albany, which I now hold in my hand; I oppOse the most respectable witnesses, who have lately visited the lo cations ; anti to the evidence of these witnesses 1 add my own teeelmony : being able, from what I myself observed among the Settlers, to corroborate many of these statements con taMed in the Report. In that country which was described in all the glowing tints of eastern imagery ; which was held out to the poor Settlers as a second Land of P rom i se, as a Land literary ov e rfl ow i ng with milk and honey,' you may see the fingers, which seldom moved but to paint for the eye, or to charm th e ear , ty i ng up catt l e, or stopping up the gaps of their inclosure ; females, on whom, in England, the wind was scarcely allowed to blow, exposed to all the rage of the piti less storm ; mothers with large families, who used to have a servant to each child, without an individual to assist them in the drudgery of the h ouse, the labour of the dairy, or the care of their children: famili es w h o use d to s l eep upon down, with scarcely a sufficient number of boards, or a sufficient quantity of straw, to keep them from an eartht'rn floor ; young females, possessed of every accomplishment, reduced to feed a few cows, almost the sole dependance of the family ; men, who have held the ranks of Captains and Paymasters in the army, driving waggons, without shoes or stockings ! " In a tour I made through the loc a ti ons of the Settlers, I found a Gentleman, whose connections at home I knew to be respectable, with two lovely daughters, without a single ser• vane, male or female, upon the place. I asked him, bow he came to be in this situation ? In reply, he said, with much mildness and apparent resignation, I have sunk my all, I have spent my last shilling, and I have never reaped one hand ful of produce from my farm !' On another location, I entered a house in which I was ushered into the presence of a female, whose dress and circumstances exhibited such a contrast to her manners and former connexions in life, that, when she began to talk of Sir John —, Sir Wm. --, Gen. --, Lady—, as her relations, and to ask me if I knew such persons, it required a considerable effbrt to persuade myself that I was not listening o describe circumstances, be to enumerate the greater part of them. I am fully satisfied heads of e o r f so t a he u i n ia d r e t r ies tr i en in ta e l t under similar that if, in some instance, clamorous individuals may . have ex aggeratedreal distress of the Settlers as a body, has neither met the public eye, nor been made known by their . own . report. the miseries of' their own condition, one-fifth of the " If there be any thing interesting in the condition. of. an land ;- any thing to excite pity for men smarting under the rod all n ou th ld B emigrant, to him that knows the heart of a stranger in a strange of the Almighty, like Job, when lie exclaimed, Have pity upon me, Oh ! my friends, have pity upon me, fur the hand of the Lord hath touched me ; any thing to excite sympathy , 0 1 old age, bending over the grave of a partner in life who has, died of a broken heart : any t hi ng touching i n the name 01 widow ; any thing te n d er i n the condition of fatherless chil dren ; any thing affecting in the sight of young accomplished females, reduced not to the spindle and the distaff, but to the drudgery that falls to the lot of the slave in the service of the African Boor; if there be any thing in hunger and naked ness to excite pity —we have all these claims embodied in thin Institution. (a) The Wilde flond, or Wild Dog, of the Cape, is me' - tioned by Burchell as an undescribed and very ferocious specie. of the Hicena. (b) The Scotch party are located f a r up in th e i nter i or , O one of the sources of Great Fish River, parallel with the Sneuwberg ; and have suffered less from the blight than an/ other Settlers. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, January 13. Amsterdam Ditto, at Sight Rotterdam l2 4 Antwerp l2 5 37 7 if V§ • 24 65 0 fii• .5 83 t 2585 0t•.1 7 10 156 i Ex. Mond, liamburgh Altotia Paris,3 Day's sight Ditto Mourdeanz, ditto Berlin Frankfort on the Main Pat et sburgh Vienna lO 14 Trieste to 14 Madrid Cadiz l3ilboa .. 2l:ri Fiecti l Barcelona 35 Gibraltar Leghorn ',AA-Venice, Ital. Lir ei 0 Malta 4,5 -Naples 3l3} Palermo Lisbon Oporto ItioJanti v.) Bahia Dublin 49 .Corli 91 pet BULLION. Portugal Gold, i C - oio 19 .0 0 pg l Foreign Cold, in Bars 3 17 6 New Doubloons New DoHari . , Silver in Bars, Standard ii 4 Ili . BIRTH. At Genoa, on the 28th December, the Lady of Edward /1 Mesurier, Esq., of a daughter. DIED. Y ,str '6 on Friday, at his house in 01'k -street, Baker-. Richard Dennison, Esq., in his 72d year. On Saturday last, at his house at Kingston-upon-Tiw - Sampel Cox, Esq. aged 75. Printed and Published for the PRopkIETORS, at,tht 131; * OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIIte. l tr sin e hith tion foto thei the (Ic to ail t(