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seen a single day since nay arrival that would in the least pre.
vent outdoor wok. I have not seen any snow nearer than
PART OF THE FONTHILI. LIBRARY, FORMED BY twenty or thirty miles, and that upon the top of a mountain
W. RECKFORD, ESQ. enalnllnertti.Benlon2oari.mtlo,..Joui7„ .n 1 uly, and Auittiuitat anreutiehme
etnh!•setwanindteirs
PHILLI I'S respectfully notifies, that on MON- month •, and t Irm that winter .
DAY, the Roth of April and following days, Ns 1. he I fully t.,s summer is iny Scotland,
. withthe ex.ceapnti,on_ofthe
shall Si'BM IT by AITTION. at his Great Rooms, New ornings 1 • r oft n• r cold anti fro sty; but no 50001. f oes
Bond-street. a SELECTION of valuable BOOKS, in handsome't sun appear than oft
n dew or frost is evaporateo, o day
appears more like a fine dcy in stammer than that of a winter
bindings. Books of Prints, Missals, and Manuscripts. and which may,
formed part of the vast anal valuable Library of Fonthill Abbey. y. The spring is beautiful,. beyond imagination. The trees are
all evergreens, and by the beginning of spring begin to put forth
Murree de Racine; Fables de la Fontaine, par Montenault • k
Voyage Piunresque de Is Serie (Farm •Coareg4s Lawater-it tl iy blue ems' The .11101ta or wattle is MO Of three Mamba
Essay on Physiognomy; Moutesquieu feeuvrea); Smith and y ow ow
coltveied. with large hunches of eff fi eve t' perfume ills
air, betvdes a variety of beautiful little flowers, shetiding around
Byrne's Select Views in Italy; Hamilton's (Sir %V.) Collection of !
an agreeable perfume. There is not a single tree in the colony
Engravings; llomeri Opera; Denon's Voyage ; Stroll's Chen-
nieles of England ; and many other valuable Works and Galleries
that bears fruit indigenous to the country, but the different kin
of Art. of' fruit trees that have been imported thrive uncommonly well,
and bear large crops of fruit. The quadrupeds are the kangaroo,
Alay be viewed four days previous to the sale, and catalogues which is excellent food when stewed with mutton and onions ; the
had at Is. each, at Mr. Phillips's, Bond-street. tail, which is very large, makes very good soup: The kangaroo
rat is a small animal, and ought to have been called rabbit, as they
are more like the latter. The birds are the emus, from C. to 12 feet
high, the black and white cockatoos, black and whim swans,
parrots, paroquets, pigenns, quails, different kinds of ducks;
amongst the number is the large mountain duck, together with the
beautitul musk duck, whose skin is so very valuable, There are
native hens, which are much like the common ben at home ; mag,
pies, eagles, hawks, and crows, are plentiful, together with a va-
riety of pretty little birds. The only reptiles in the country are
snakes, which tire of two kinds, the black and yellow snake; they
generally run from three to six feet long: their bite is instant
death. ',nicest the piece is cut out the very moment it happens.
Many of the farmers of this country cultivate tobacco with
success.; but as the Lester country is much better adapted
for the growth of that article, the preference is generally
given to it. The Merino sheep have come to great perfection in
Australia, and many of the stockholders of this island have been
improving their flocks fast of late years, so that many of them have
flocks now equally line with those of New South Wales. The
new estabiisliment at the Gulf of Carpenter is, I am told, doing
well, as every thing they have tried promises abundant tmurn to
the adventurers. The tobacco plant, sugar cane, tea plant, and ail
kinds of spices thrice well. The great Australian Company formed
in London has already sent a great dal of their property to that
country, and it is expected that the undertaking will pay well. By
the latest arrival from England we are made acquainted with the
country having been made independent of Sydney. We will now
have a Governor-in-Chief of our own, which will to a certainty
be of the greatest importance to Van Diemen's Land. I have now.
Sir, given you all that I know, as far as rcgatds this country, and
must say, that I consider Van Diemen's band to be one of the best
places io the world for a man of family,—l mean a farmer, with a
numerous family of sons and daughters, that could bring two or
three thousand pounds with him. I never would advise any per-
son to come to this country with less than bOOl. unless he be a
working man • if so, he can do very well should he not bring a
farthing with Ctim. At the time that I arrived in this country, the
merchants were by no paeans enterprising. They had but very few
vessels of their own, but now it is quite different with then).
They have a number of sloops, schooners, and brigs of the first
quality. sailing regularly between here and Chins, for tea. &c.
Isle of France for sugar ; Bengal, Batavia, Cape of Good Hope,
and all the de Perrot ports of Smith America, besides a number of
vessels that are always employed in the whale fishing; the whales
being so very plentiful that many of them have been caught
this season within a mile of Hobart Town ; and from the good
accounts that whaling vessels bring of the number canght by them-
selves and others not yet arrived, it is certain that oil will become a
good article of export. The essence of wattle will also add to the'
export, and is now in great demand to be sent to the ruott.er coun-
try. Wool will also in a very short time make one of the prineipsl
article* of expert to England : it is besides found out that there is
a never falling market fur the surplus of corn, as Brazil alone will !
take 70.000 bushels annually, and the Isle of France 30,000, he-
sides many other places will take less or more. There are seven •
distilleries and five breweries in the island, all busily employed-
Tea and sugar have been rather il!ar this season, in consequence of
the destruction of Canton by tire, and a hurricane in the Isle of
France that destroyed their cane; but the Lest season it is expected.'
that both those articles will he down to their original price:—fine,
young Hylton 9L to 91. 10s., Ilyson skin from 71. to 71. 10a. per
chest ; and line sugar Vitt. to 4i. per pound. Black tea is never 1
used here, the common people would not even look at it should it
let imported. There is scarcely a poor individual in the country bu•
takes tea to every meal. The pour people live in this country much
better than most of the !substantial fitment in England, at least so
far as beef, mutton, pork, and flour, together with good tea and
sugar, go. Cheese is generally sold from Is. lid. to 2s. lid. per lb. ;
butter Is. lid. to 3a. Col., eggs Is. lod. to 3s. per dozen ; fowls 3s. to
3..141. per couple, according to what supply is brought to market.
Prisoners are the only servants in the settlers' employ, with the ex-
ception of one here and there, as overseers, or such as take employ-
ment ; some of them that 1 have seen are not a bit better than the
common convicts, and are generally very ungrateful to their em-
ployers, or rather to the person that brought them from England,
as they do him no good till such time as he gives up their Wen.
Lure, and then they leave lino and en to another master, when, of
mune, they get greater wage.. Tite prisoners are different from
those, as they *reassigned to settlers by Government, and for which
themget 101. per year, tor the purpose of keeping them in clothing ;
and many of them are tolerably good servants—much better than
might be expected; there are certainly others amongst them that
are of the blackest dye, being capable of doing nothing but steel-
ing, robbing, and even murdering. Those generally tett thetn-
%Ore* to what la called the Bush • and are a great tents/to main,
of the stock-keeper. as they not only take from them some ether
stock, but tea, sugar, money, clothing, 11,,c. ; but fortunately that'
description of people are not now so numerous at trey have been a
few years ago : the reason of this is, I suppOse, this the colmy
is daily getting mote inhabited by respectable people, Who an as
the alert for taking those kind of pew* ; the eanieguswar at which.
Is, they get frightened, and don't lam Oolararnant employ in ono-

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and in this Establishment the whole of their Appointments,
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large and well-manufactnred stock of Sea Cots, Couches. and Bed-
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Mule and Bullock Trunks, pod every other description of Travel-1
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An assortment of Cantebs, ready fitted with the necessary re.
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o witty of Silver and Plated Articles, Knives and Forks. suitable
far families going abroad, Military and Hindostanee Books
Maps, &c.
A fashionable Stock of Carriage, Curricle, Tandem. Phwton
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All the Articles in this Establishment are warranted, and of
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'.ring but one Ready Money Price, from which no abatement will
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SIMPSOWS ROYAL ELIXIR of LlFE.—This
taMe-
dicine, from its balsamic and restorative qualities, fully nie.
rite the above name. It was originally prepared by a Physician of
the French Court for a late king of France, and the recipe having
been purchased by the present proprietor, is most faithfully ad-
hered so.
For flatulence, vpites*,' di goat in the stomach, its beneficial
effects are unrivalled, as It gives immediate relief in such cases ;
and no person subject to those alarming complaints ought to be
without it.
It promotes appetite, and gradually restores digestion in cases of
nervous debility, whether occasioned by • long residence in tropical
climates, natural deficiency of energy in the system, or from is too
luxurious mode of life ; this Elixir will be found (ort a sufficient
trial) a never-failing restorative to tpne and vigour.
Gentlemen who occasionally exceed the strict bounds of tem-
perance will, by taking a dune of this Elixir, on retiring to
rest, exempt themselves from the usual unpleasant effects of such
excess the following day.
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This medicine is also used by distinguished orators of the srnate,
the pulpit, and the bar, as it revives the frame, and restores the
voice when painful exhaustion is produced by long declamation ;
and at the same time is so perfectly innocent, that the most delicate
females and children may take at, without fear or alteration of their
accuromed habits.
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It is sold in bottles, at Hs. each, including stamp, by J. V.
Simpson (actin,- proprietor), No. 2%, II enrietta-strect, Covcnt.gar.
den, London ; it the Libraries; at the most fashionable watering-
places and towns of ruhlin resort ; and by the principal medicine-
venders throughout the United Kingdoui.