The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-12-29 00:00:00

TIM CAPE Or GOOD HOPE.

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The following ;clown% description of the ewe
Cud Hope is extracted front the roommencement
of an elsborate article its The Quarterly Review,
way published. This article wtil he read with
I..tereat by those who are at the present moment
shout to emigrate far the purpose or trying their
retinues in adding to the colon•zation of, Africa,
Vie must, however, ',requite that, notwithstanding
the beauties of ilia following oetcription of the soil
and climate, some discouraging circuri.telices occur
.1 the sequel well worth the attention of slur of
the persons emigrating, who oapect to find " a land
flowiug with milk and honey," instead of • eoembry
10.411 t iii iv judicious cultivation, eften under son
"Overlie ciecutbsiances.

•• The Cape of Good Hope has always maintains.
r.i a favolin.ble hold on the public opinion. Long
before it fell into our possession, the passing visitors
of this celebrated promontory were lavish in their
praises of its film climate, equally removed from the
extremes of heat and cold ; of its beautiful flowers
and choice fruits, sonic of which were always iu sea-
sou ; of the excellent quality of its breed, and the
variety situ abundance of its vegetables ; of the
neat and cleanly condition of the capacious houses;
and of the substantial comforts and the respectable •
iippearatiee of every class of its inhabitants. It
might be urged, perhaps, that so:ne little de-
duction should' be made from the glowing de-
scriptions (timidly given by periwig landing at this
half-way house,' as it was called, after a long voy-
age ; and et, Making every allowance, it must be
admitted, thet the excellence of that soil and cll..
mate cannot be greatly exaggeiated which will pro.
duce, at the tame time, and in boundless 'profusion,
the apple and the orange,. the peach rod the pear,
the grape sod the apricot, the guava and the straw-
'perry, together with a great variety of •otlier fruits
and esculent vegetables, the natural growth of
countrier situated bath within and without the
tropics. Then, added to all this, we behold with
out own eyes the multitude of heaths of surpass-
ing elegance and beauty, the endless variety of
bulbous-rooted flowers, and a lung list of the
choic.st flowering shrubs and herbaceous plants,
which are brought with some care to adorn our con-
servatories, but which are there scattered in add.
nod spontaneous profusion over the country, it•cao.
out I.ut enhance our good °potion of a spot favoured.
writ so roach beauty a iid

The Following description of the Boors is very

" These stubborn and tnisguidesl men, !mist DO
-regular employment at home, were always ready to,
risoetnlrle what they called a coma:undo, which, iu'
fact. was a pretext to rove shunt beyond the limns
-sof the colony, to destroy game, and, in default of
slither sport, to shoot the wild Hottentots, ;whom
thiy call B.:sjesmeis. Frequently the 'boor sets oat
•aiotie in order to kill time and break the even tenor'
.of • lase life. His enormous musket, which he.
names a rver, is his insepsratile companion ; indeed -
he istrolJ not consider himself safe without it : with
. it be travels with confidence; fur so expert is he its.
hitting tile mink. that be seldom fails to .bring
down his object, whether it he a Bosjesstraii or a will
beast, with a single ball. Of the unerring Atli and
.`steadiness of these men. the following may serve as
specimen. The hero of this little narrative was a
•persou.of the name of Von Wyk, and we give the
isiory of his perilous and• fearful ihot iu his own
:words : ;

" 'll is noiv,'•ssid he. 'more -than two years since,
it the. very place where we stand. I 'emitted to.
.take one of the most daring 'hots that ever was Ma-.
• sarded. My wife was Apittiog • VIIIIIII4 the house,:
. steer the door ; the children were playiug shout her;
• and I was isithont. near the house; busied in doing
torn*thisg to o waggon, wire. suddenly, though it
was oi,d-day, so ruormoos host appeared,• crone
.up and laid himself quietly down an .the shade.
-trims the very threshold of the -door. My wife,
either frozen with fear, nr •awate o.!" the danger at.
tendlogoany attempt to fly, remained motionlevs
•in her place, while the children took refogetin her
:lap. The cry they uttered attracted roy.atteo..
and I hasteued 'towards the door ;• but my-
.ussionislimmit may well he conceived. when 1
.found the entrance to it barred in such a easy.—
:Although the animal bad vot seen me, unarmed as -
.1 was..eacape seemed impossible; yet I glided
gehtly. scarcely knowing what I'-meant to do, to
.the aide of tore • house, up to tire window of my
chamber. where•l knew any lucded 'goo was shied-.
•iag. •By a moat happy Chance, I had set it in the
corner, clone bribe window, so that I could •reach
with. my hood ; for. as you may perceive, the
-opening is too mall to rdtuit of my having got
; and still molt fortunately. the door of the.
room wairopen,•so that I -could see th• whole sidtrioi
.gar of the scene. The lion was beainoitig to omit,.
.perhaps with the intention .of leakiest; a. wing..
niece was no longer wiry time to thruk : I called.
-softly to the somber rot to .Iws.slotmed, and iroroka.
lag tire name of the Lord, fired royisiece. The.
-ball mooed directly oventhe hair ciliary boy's Model
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LON DON, . •
WEDNESDAY, IL 1819.

. The debate in the House of Lords on Monday
evening., upon the Newspaper Statnp Duties Bill,
•closed the struggle on the part of the country
against the severe measures inflicted by the Minis-
ti re. Upon the clisnicter or there measures it is
• unnecessary to argue, because even the Ministers
° themselves acknowledged some of them to be inva-
sions on the dearest and most •valued privileges of
-the people, and which nothing short of the most
'urgent necessity could WV, justified the Govern-
ment in proposing, or the 'Legislature in sanction-
ing; yet. so far were the Itlinisters from fairly
and clearly proving this necessity, that even their
speeches in Parliament, •to the latest moment.
proved that the existing laws, if vigorously admi-
nistered, were adequate to correct the evils, what-
ever they may have been, with which the country
was threatened. We do not pretend to affirm that
an equal censure sliqold be indiscriminately at-
tached to all the enactments of the present Session :
there are some provisions to which we are ready to
give our fullest. assent, such as the (Misdemeanors
Bill and the Military Training Bill ; but the Sedi-
tious Meetingcsßill and the Libel Bill are violent
infringements of our hest and noblest rights. for
which no sufficient cause has been assigned, and
whiCh indeed no pretence of an occasional abuse
could ever have justified.
. It wax rernarljed on Monday night by the Loan
CHANCELLOR, that no lawyer in either House of
Parliament has ventured to declare that the meet-
ing* held daring the samuser.tither, at !Manchester,
or. Leeds, or Birmingham, or Nottingham. ite.
Were legal. and on a former secession the Noble
Lull.' for whose learning and integrity we have
Over entertained the simmer respect. avowed his
*aim this, molt .0,410 Irene were little sheet
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