The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-10-15 00:00:00

FIFE HUNT.

The Hunt met at Cupar on Monday the 27th of Septem-
ber. The fox bounds hunted On !Hominy, iVeduesday, mud
Saturday, sud had good sport. The meeting, which was more
utrusertius than it has been for some years past, was conducted
by Mr. Weaderburit, of Iredderburn, the preses, and his
stewards, in a moaner which sbewed indefatigable activity and
spirit. The balls on Thursday and Friday were attended by a
great display of beauty and fashion, and as to the music, it is
sufficient to say, that the band wasted by How, assisted by his
brother from London. M'Nalis entertainments, as usual,
were excellent, sill gave general satisfaction.

THURSDAY.
There was run for over the race course a Maiden Plate of tOL
Mr. Thelluson's h. Too

Mr. Skeue's b. by linnwleley r 2 2
Mr. Haneynaair's in. Marianne 5 3
Mr. Wedderburn's m. Sucky Sunderland 3 dr
Mr. Russell's .u. Lavinia 4 dr
A Weller Stakes, 13 Subscribers.
Sir David Minicritfra h. Harlequin O •• •• I I
Marquis of Homily's h. Bunny Jemmy

A 501. purse fur all ages.
Mr. Dawhiggin's h. Eglintun
Mr. Gurton's K. Carrick
Captain Wm. Hunter's m..
FRIDAY.
The Hunters' Plate of 501.
Sir David Moncrieff's h. Harlequin 1 1
Mr. Rigel, g. Cornea Cowrie ..
Mr. Skene's h. by Kiniwkley
Mr. Wedderbunes ns. Sticky Snisdertmid
An open plate of 501. The winner to he mild fur 150 guineas.
Mr.Guftuies g. Carrick I 1
Mr. Thellimon'a ch. en
Au excellent lace. Each heat won by a neck
A Yeomanry Cup, given by the Officers of the Fifeshire
Regiment. Four hones started,all under protest. Mr. George
Scotland's more came in first both beats with great ease, but
the race is not yet derided.
Sir David Munerieff was elected prems fur next autenni
meeting of the Hunt. when great sport is expected, as, be-
sides the usual plates, a subscription fur a hundred guinea
gold cup is already nearly full.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

°cross* 13.

Arrived the Mediae, Kesseedgi has she Dumas fur Ja.
Mica ; wad the Slaagles, Loeser, from Madras, with six
pates of the 25th light deogoons, wader the eutiseasnd
elf Major Hole. She left lisslaas the 7th April, sod St.
aihesa the Sib August. Oa the 15th August, in tat. 3. N.
OM. n. W: spoke the Kingships, Bowen, fres London
Off the Anew% MI in with two ships cud a
brig, armed, which WNW irattiab colours. Wishing to
eementiniewte with Ida Illasgles sent a boat, which
was bred at, stml sal eiwd N go alongside.

PLYMOUTH, OCTOME 11.
Arrived t►e Toyota's, %minima, from St. Domingo, in
two months, Isat frees Port Royal, Jamaica, with army ac-
coutrements, which she curried from Latakia is May lut,
fur M'Gregues army.
FALMOUTH, OCTOBER 11.
Arrived the Lady Arebella packet, with a mail from Lis-
boa, in six days.
ILAMSGATI, ocronaa 13.
The Dutch ship Camillus, Trippeuger, from Amsterdam,
for Rio Janeiro, got on shore ow the Sandwich Flats during
the fog lut maim& but with amistance was gut off and
brought in hue this moraine, after cutting from her cable
and beating off her false keel.
saeown, °crises 13.
Arrived the Jose packet with s twit hum Gottenburg..
Sailed the Prince of Orange packet for Holland. aid
Henry Freelin packet for Cuohaveu—both with mails.
DCAL, OCTOMAIR 13.
Permed through the Dowse, the tines/rhea, Pederson,
from Dress fur Falmouth.
Came dawn from the River, the Isabella, Brown, fur
Sierra Leone.
A galliot got se shore we the Guo4wie Seeds, bet wee
get off with mistime, tied is sow is the Deem.

• •
• EMIGRATION • •
• '
TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
[From Illathicood's Aplinbatrgh iiegasiael
We shall not here enter at large upon the question,
whether the superabundant population of this
°court-
try may be employed on the waste lands, as pro-
posed by Alderman Wood. or subsisted its villages, us
attempted to be practised by Mr. Owen. We cannot
however help thinking and saying, that somewhat
more is required to compose human happiness titan
hare existence, whether that existence arise from the
enclosure and cultivation of fens and mountains,
or from pauper and extra-parochial republics. It
is useless to lay down maxims that will be slight-
ed by those whose wants are pressing and imme-
diate. Poverty has neither time nor temper to
reason upon remote advantages. Doubtless,
plans may be proposed which, with wisdom
and economy, might ultimately support the
surplus population of Great Britain; but while
so MUCII distress prevails, and emigration has be-
come the passion of our restless mid dimatisEed
poor, it behoves the practical philanthropist, while he
pities the one, to couvert the other to the best ad-
vantage. The evil of mendicity exists to an utiques-
tionable and iterating extent, and we have seen
with what avidity adventurers hare left their mauve
shores for the wilds of America. It is too late in the
day to risk of giving to each individual his acre of
lend. The growth of trade and wealth forbids such
Utopian divisions. Extent, or, if you please, mo-
nopoly of property, is the natural consequence of
commerce and civilization, and the few rich must
make the many pour. The poor, however, will In-
crease in numbers, if not in wealth, sod swarms
of the enterprising indigent are ever found ready
iti over-grown countries, to exchange the certainty
of want at home for the chance of abundance
abroad. We need scarcely appeal to history in at-
testation of these truths. We would nut be under-
stood to discourage the efforts of philanthropy, to
retain and employ the poor in their own country.
Every possible exertion should be made to alleviate
their wants and stimulate their industry. To this
we are urged no less by mural than political duty.
Idleness is the mother of want, and the nurse of
vice and sedition. An unemployed and licentious
poor is the deadliest cancer of a State. But to our
subject.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has submitted
to Parliament the expediency of voting 50,0001.
towards the encouragement of emigration to the
Cape of Good Hope. Let it be remembered,
once for all, that it is nut because that Colony is
too thin of inhabitants, but that the Mother Country
is too full, this plan is suggested. The question
is nor, how you may maintain a surplus peasantry
in the land that- gave them birth, but, whether
you will stop emigration to the frozen shores of
Canada, and to the United States, or divert amid en-
courage it to the finest colony in the world. We
surely have learnt enough of North America to con-
vince us of the degraded and miserable coudition
of Its people. South Airier, on the other hand, has
every advantage to repay the sacrifice of quitting
the land of our forefathers.

The more fully to understand and appreciate
these advantages, we shall set before our readers a
short view of the condition and facilities of the co-
lony in question.
The spring, from September to December, is the
most agreeable season. The summer, from De-
cember to March, is often intensely hot. The
autumn, from March to June, is generally fine and
pleasant. The winter is rainy and stormy, and
fur the most part so cold as to make fires very com-
fortable during the months of July, August, and
September. Most of the diseases that appear
amongst the natives proceed rather from their gross
and indolent mode of living. than the unhealthi-
ness of the climate. The scarcity of water in sum-
mer is unfavourable to cultivation ; and fur want
of industry or materials this defect is not reme-
died, as it is in India, by artificial tanks or reser-
voirs. Where. however. irrigstion can be employed,
either fiom wells or rivers, tin most abundant ve-
getation ensues. Good and abundant water has al-
iens been found by digging wells in Cape Town
and the vicinity. In the whole colony there is
scarcely a river that can be called navigable.
Though swollen into torrents during the winter, most
them dry up during the summer. The principal
rivers on the southern coast. are the Berg mild
Oliphant. Both tlicae have deep and permanent
streams, yet the mouth of the former is choked
up with a bed of sand, and across the latter is a
reef of rocks. The Sunday river rises iii the
snowy ,mountaics, amid fulls into A lgos bay.
It is narrow and deep towards its mouth, and is
choked, like the rest, %jib a lied of sand.
The Great river forms the boundary of
the colony from Catlrana. and though large and
sufficiently deep for *Lips, has also a bar that
crosses its mouths, The wily rivet that seems nevi.
gable is the Kroysna. This is an arm of the bra,
into which the stile sets tl gb a narrow passage.
as into a iluck•; within. there is plenty mil deep
water. The basin or lake is studded with a num-
ber of flat island*, mill the surrounding bills are
clumped with forest trees to the water's edge. In
is called. by Barrow, 6. the grainiest and most
beautiful part of Southern Africa." All these risers
are well stocked anti perch, eels, and small turtle;
uilline a cretin's distauce from the roast, they
abosind with the several fish peculiar to these seas.

There is a general waist of w..od in S.mili Attica.
At the distance, however, of 15 milts f Algoa
hew. there i• a large forest of many thousand acres,
Smile of these trees (t4xus eluergatop) grow to the
amazing rise of 111 feet iii diameter, and to the
height of 30 or 40 fret of trunk clear of branches.
The wood is useful fur usaiq purposes, hut will not
bear exposure to weather. The iron-wiroil grow. to
the size of 3 feet in diameter, and the trunk straight
and very high. The liassagai•wood is n beautiful
tree, about the size of the iron-woad, and is used bar
tonal implements of husbandry. Stink-wood (from
its offensive smell) is the native oak of South
Africa, and is by marry degrees the best produced
in the Colony. It snakes ireautiful furniture, and
appears to be well calculated for ship-building.—
There are various other kinds of trees, but these
are the must rioted and useful. Still there is a
great want of wood ire Cape Town, and the most
extravagant profit is made upon foreign umber.
Wood is shirr the only indigenous fuel to the co-
lony, and iit Cape Twee is eactsavely expensive.

Coale, though brought from England, are thou,ht
u much cheaper furl. . _

Most *1 the European, and several of the Crow.
cal fruits, bare been already introduced ii.to th-!
luny, and cultivated with Stleen*,
melons, figs, and guavas, are most uliund,.„t „„,i
excellent; peaches delicious, and apricots wit-rink/
good. Apples, pears, prousegranale,, rod
medlars, thrive well. Plumbs and chroirs 1/ not
succeed, and gooseberries and currant, here Intleil.
The nectarine is not known there. 1:14,4,trik!, are
good, but scarce ; strawberries are plentiful. .t•hrrn
are neither filberts nor hazel nuts, but :here is
abundance of excellent almonds, waluut•, aml
chesituts.