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,leerishect the Maim int Jr.er my the
bowers,' add then drove the Settlers from their
, farms. Even when exempt from aftual violence,
the turbulence of the people. the want of futtitica-
! tions, and the policy, more than the ill will. of the
Natives, kept its in a state of constant disquietude
and alarm. The heavy losses the Company teas.
tainect obliged it to pursue a rigid economy, under
which the Colony might exist, but u.ver flourish.
Nu example could be set in cultivation. no im-
provement attempted; little inlet course kept up
witb eeighlsouring nations; knowledge of the in-
terior could not be extended; nothing, in short,
could be eifeded to give 4redit to the Settlement
It was not often that an -establishment could be
kept up sufficient for the most necessary purposes ;
add to this, the peculiar unfiuiess of the main body
of the people to persevere under the dificultirs, and
contend against the dangers of a new Settlement ;
and the wonder is, that the Colony exists, rather
than that it has net Satirists-411V .

In speaking of the advantages to be derived
from the Colony, Governor Ludlam observes :
" It should Ant be forgotten, that, in two or three
instances, Alps of war could not have fulfilled their
instrutliocs, without the supplies which they received
lions us also, that it was a serious question,
whether it would not have been necessary to have-
evacuated Goree, if we had been unable to have
supplied the garrison with provisions last yew'?"
Considerable progress had been made in ex-
ecuting the pion of fortifications projeded by Cap-
tain Day, and described by him t ) the Committee
of the House of Commons. in December f dtl3,
berme which he bad given evidence. The Di-
reßors, however, have reason to fear, that the cc-
pence of the work-, which have been undertaken,
has ciassiderably exceeded the sum of 15.0001 at
which they were estimated, although they have en-
deavoured, in their letters to the Governor and
Council of Sierra Leone, 'to c ,nti:se the expte.,
diture for fortifications as nearly as possible within
that estimate.

The Direttots beg leave here to state, that in con-
sequence of theexpedation of their having soon to
o ansfer the Civil and Military Authority of the
Settlement into the bands of Government, the TA.
caticies which have arisen in their establishment
abroad, have failed to be filled ap for a considerable
time past, and that they conceive the chief dangers
to which the Colony is new likely t•, be exposed, to
arise from this source. In parti,:u:ar, it ha: been
imooseble for theirs to provide a Governor in the
place of Mr. Ludlam, Mho has long very relhaantly
retained his office, or to supply M:mhets of Council,
at a period when it was uncertain whether the ap-
pointments would be confirmed by Government.
To the defiltive state of the Comp iny's establt.th
mint abroad, may be referred some deficiency of in-
e. and some delay in so king up accoostats.
Tait Direttors have been deeply sensible of the
rartiou.: etas *risme from the state of uncertainty
in whioit they W.Te placed.
In ISO, they made their first application
o Govcrnme t on the subject of the transfer of au•
.hnriry, recommended by the Committee of the
Hoare of Commons ; and in December, 1803,
they presented to the Secretary of State the first
of tl-e preceding statements. 'fi.e changes in tie
administration which ha 1 at that time taken place,
and the urgency of publat busines:, and other cauies,
occasioned a delay in bringing the suhje.l before
the C anniitt- e of Privy Council for Trade and Plant-
itions, to whom it w.ts referred. In September
last the Committee of Pt ivy Council stated their' ins
on which it appeared to their Lordships that the
transfer desired by theDireftors should he effetted ;
namely, that the charter and corporate grant, with
the tortifications and public buildings, and all other
immoveable property belonging to the Company in
their corporate capacity, should be surrendered ;
and that the moveable property of the Company,
with the exception of naval and military stores,
might remain at their own disposal ; and Oat all
grants which might have been made to individuals,
should be confirmed to them, and that they should
continue to hold the some, under Ilia Majesty, on
the terms on which they now hold them tinder the
Company ; and that the Government of the Settle-
ment should hereafter be carri td on in such manner
as His Majesty might Ise pleased to dire&

The fleet whi-h sailed from Cork, on the 10th alt.
for the %Vest Indies, WM, left on the 17th is lat. 41.
33. N. long. 14. 20. all well.
The Two Brothert, SCARRACK. tinder Kniphau-
ten colours, hound horn Gyon with a cargo of
walnuts to Hell, was wrecked in Quiberon Bay, on
the 13th of December last. Capt. S. remained on
the wreck until the next day, when he was picked
up by the boat of His Ma; ssev's sloop Su, 'nano,
J. LAKE, Esq. Commander; a passenger and three
sailors were drowned, and he, the Captain, lost
every thing, and was in a very bad state of health.
Capt. LAKE took him on board, gave orders that
every accommodation should be rendered to him ;
and, after having been 19 Jays on board, landed
him at Plymouth ; bet, before he kft the Sarimm,
Captain LAKE gave him a guinea and a half, a new
hat, coat, stockings, &c. besides this he gave a err.
tiicate to Capt. S. relating to his misfortune, which
has enabled him to make a collettion in foreign
houses and churches, and to ("Stain abort .sefl. with-
which he has returned to his native country .
Mr. Witte eaten, stating his new system for
httteting the condition of the Poor, in the House of
Correnous, on Thursday last, alluding to Mr. LAN-
CASTER'S m ,ele of Education, said—" :iince Me.
Pitt opened his plan to th.• p•iblic, a system of
Faltseation has be-•n discovered. *Licit, mica to Isis
credit, an Hun. Memher of this House (Ars H.
Tat:me:Ton, we believe) has warmly supported. It
is els.) countenance I by many of the mast enhght-
einel persons in the oth••r House, and has been for-
tunate enough to have obtained the patronage of the
Rov a e FAMILY. This sycem is the discovery of
a Mr. LANCASTER, W:NI is entitled to the thanks,
not only of this hut of every country, fur the labour
with which he had endeavoured to perk& and in-
troduce it. This system, the cheapest, the easiest
acquired, and the most general and beneficial in its
elle& which human ingenuity ever devised. I trust
I shall see /bluish, notwithstanding the illiberal op-
position, and the base prejndic,s which hays been,
for what it:Awns I am at a loos to discover, ao art-
'fully excited against
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