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TIIE.4TIIR ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.

F. EKING, FRIDAY. November 17.
his Mak.ity's *male will perform Shakapearea Tra-
gedy of
KING LEAIt.

PROVIDENT LIFE.OFFICE, REGENT-STREET.
IFILESIDENT,
The Right li ble Earl GREY.
trigs
Nfargitis of Salisbury, I Viscount Met wynd,
Earl of H•relwkike, Viscoret
Vlamnint Bolkeley, Lord Braybruoke.
Firtrea Directors.
Managing Direeter, .1 T. Barber Beaumont, F.oq. F.A.S.
ERSONS in.seerd for Life in this Office *hare
P the Profits Septennially with the Original Members,
according to their respective Contribution.. Thus, by the
specific Sums insured, and continent Prtifit', they hay, the
fullest vales fur their payments, in s manner nearly similar
to that until lately adi.pied in the Evaitable OPT, but
with this presumed Irapreveinewf, via. that as the oririnal
Members have raised • permanent Fluid, iiremetl amply
sufficient for the intrinsic of indemnity, it is provided, that
no person/1 responsibility shall attach to the Policy luililers;
hence those who seek protection are secured from tourer-
tainty and risk of loss as in a Proprietary Office, hiving
large inheritable Capital, and are entitled to a participation
in the Profits, as in • Union Society.
Bnimees et 131 S• and 12*. pe cut Airco been
cut
derive the last fourteen years.
alateirrp Mot insured at this OfSee efe latartlrarted with
any additional Premium, sinless called into eiefieni service.
NJ Arhate•fon Fees are required, cur is any (harps made
for Policies, except the Stamp Daly.

the total of Rolivar's army on the march from Gangslito to
the province of New Grenada, Arno 2,44 n, leasing Pace
with the remassider or lb* oririosl army. Pare imetairtly
marched to 11.ler, amid wintered there ; in the mean lime
Pace ordered the flechrras op the river to the Arharuas, ism.
hooding to embark his infantry fur the Minns, and himself,
with his cavalry, to go over thr thermos's, make ati atterl upon
San Cruz, on the other aide of the Apure, and also to rut out
rime new fleeltenss build.ng, and some weer Lodi is
• *lnch of the river Apnea to Nulling; halms, the Euglish
mustering to proceed, • serjeani Robinson, who came out is
the Hero, having sled for a• pair of shoes, 44 he said be
mold not march without them, Peer made no mote I. do,
and without the Item hesitation slisinsouisted big horse, lw.
griller with Gee Toni., who coorernaiided the iisfantry, and
piaci** their hands upon his &crud him out from
the ranks, and placed him up against the mud cud of one of
their hovel., and isix Eiirlishmen, Who formed the :mud, stud
him by Pares order; and :as 4,111111 as he was shot, the whole
of the assembly of the native 'pa, beside. the Pismires,
who were lookinr on, tried owill—Cararro lwrliews! rims 14
Peefria! Ire the space of five painntea he was taken down and
throws into the river; he, rot being a Christine was not al.
lowed to be belied isr their ehtirchyard. Tire rest p•wehed
dawns apps/ sr the
riverand rot to the pan, ie the Amin ;
and well it was east did 110 take them, cry they would all
have deserted when across the Apnea. However, the ca.
retry were beat bark from Santa Cult with a veil loss, as
the 240 Royalist Creole troops were ist the block bootie.
The Patriots came hark, and opeued the &rents and Ovis-
ptet campaign, in November, IMP; they marched for the
former place, where they staid two days, and then proceed-
ed to the latter. sod staid there two slay', but no plunder
was allowed From the latter place they were otiose a rapid
retreat to Nutrias ; and 1 came to a determination, with
any two comrades, to fly to the wow.. or wood, where we
staid right day., living noon a easionla root and Iwo ripe
plantains ; anal on the riabib oaths sallied oat, keepiag by
way of the wood, and ranee to a Royalist Plansleissary, and
protected us. anal took as when •ll was safe to Ori•pos,
where Jaaientes Juan Romero forwarded us to the *rarest
Royalist forces, and at length reaclicd tisn Carlos, and stw
his Excellency General Monti., oho behaved in • fatherly
magnet to a., and rare us • roople of choshlusine, and a
reimport to Porto Cavallo, from theatre to proceed to any of
the Islands. I went 11/ St. 11104134.11, from thence to Gre.
nada, in the West ladies, and came home is the Arundel,
merehantinsti, belonging to the latter place.
" When the George Canning's party were embarking at
Angostura on hoard the nether'., many seemed •li.cont..nt
In embark without the conirmition of their promises. In.
(soma' ion was scot to Wiliver, al the Government Hooar, of
the disemsteut prerailissg, when lie stewed himself upon the
ludustradoir, and shorted, on oath—' They ace my slaves...
I have paid fur them in mules arid cattle—entbark ! embark!'
" Toth. truth of all I leave anima I cam swear."

Kinf I.Por, Mr. Booth ; I)nke of Ron& nrly, Mr. Yining;
Val of Kent, Mr Pope; Edgar, Mr. Cooper; Edosorrel,
Mr. Raroord; Oswald, Mr. 'Rouen. Goneril; Mrs. Glum;
Nrgau, Mrs. Egrrloso ; Cordelis, Mrs. W. West.
After which, lb, Huddle Of
MIDAS.
linnowtalv—Joriter, Mr. Dolan; Sirrcitry, Mr. Vioirm;
Pin, Mr. Hart's; Apollo, Mr. T. Cooke. Juno, Miss Ca-
hill
; Yr nas, ‘IIMS

Mintal.--M Ass, Mr. hlumlra ; Darectss, Mr. B .1;
Wein., Mr. Gone. Myeis, Mrs. Bland; Daphne, Mr.. Or.
ger ; Nysa, Mini Posey.
The interior of the Theatre has been completely
ew►el-
liabcd and newly decorated.
Places for"the Roues to he taken of Mr Rodwell, at the
Private Box Entrance, Little Riisull street, until the coos.
Selina of the Portico.
The Doors witLlne opened at Half-past Six o'Cloek, and
lbw Perforameteess mach E►ewisß commence at fovea.
Bowen. 7s. ; Roerwi rriArs 3s-ed.—Pit, 3s. 6d.; Seamed
Prier, 7a..-Arcivre; exatTery, la.;-Second Price, Is.—Upper
Gallery, Is. ; Served Prier, dd.
Tit-ninrrnee, Guy Mamie-ring: Henry Bertram, Mr. Hero
(hi. fiat appearance on this Race Sheet' four
Mr. Wallach will make hrs first appearance on Moods)
next, in the (baron-ire of Hamlet.
A sac. Imice is in rehearsal.

TN Is'.4 TR A'.llOY L, COVRNT.GA KORN.

THIS EVENING, FRIDAY. November 17.
will be performed Sleakspearee Comedy of

I'WELFTII NIGHT.
With Nrw Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, and Decorations.
The Overinre and whole of she M ll4lr et:minnow/I and velvet-
aJ fmm Morley, Ford, Raveasseroft, Saville, Sir Jobs.
Stevenson, Winter, i.e.; and the Glees arranged by Mr.
Riehup.

In the course of ihe Comedy will he inlrodnesd Song.,
Meets, Wee., and Choruses, she Port'', **levied entirely
from the Plays, Poems, and Sonny's of Slutsiresre.
Duke Orsini', Mr. AtMolt ; Valentine, Mr. Taylor ;
Cu,,.,, Mr Fyne: Sir Toby Belch, Mr. Emery ; Sir Andrew
Agur ct k, Mr. Limon; Sebastian, Mr. Parslor ; Aidunits,
Mr. ClAlpinnn; Roberto, Mr: Jrffrries ; Fnar, Mr Atkins;
Dislviolio, Mr. n.. Emirs ; Clown, Mr. Faurrli ; Fabian.
Mr. Durnset ; Solanio, Mr. C..mrr ; Beneetlio, Mr. Tinney,
fillets, Musa Greene; Viola, Mies M. Tree; Maria, Mrs.
Gibbs.

The ruitewinz ere th, Selections from Shakspesre
Act I.—" Full ensny a glorious Morning;" Sonnets.--
Glees " Who is Sylvia ?" Two Genthaven of Vrron•.—
Snag, " Even is thr Sun;" Vcons purl Adonis.ii—Doetto,
"Orrin*, will. his Lnte;" King Henry 1111.
Art ll.—Glee, " COMP o'er Ow Brook ;" King Lear sn4
Poems.—Glre, "On a day;" Love's Labour Lust.—Glee
and Chorus, " A Cup of ‘Vitte;" Henry IV. Part H.
Art " Crabbed ace;" Sonnets.—Ditetto,
N Cwwwin, by the Roses of the Spring;" Twelfth Night.—
Glee," 1/, by rivers ;" Poems.
Act IV.---Song." 0 how much more cloth Beauty;" Som.
swis.—Song," Take a 1 my lives;" Sonnets..--marlos Glee,
" Come onto these yellow sands ;" Tempest..—Cbortss,
" Daily joys be still wpm. yo* ;" Tempest.

EXCURSIONS IN AFRICA

FROM ZWELLENDAM TO THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF THE MORAVIAN MISSIONARIES.

Jon 43, 1919.—0ur route this morning was by
the Zusider-end iiver, and after a pleasaut ride of
three hours and a half, we arrived at John Theunis-
'ben's. I had intended to pass the day here. but iss
the family were going in the evening to his father's,
I agreed to accompeuy them. I here met a Capteio
Charles Van thestandt, who has a small estate
called Boils River, he had been at see twenty yens's,
and at Calcutta several times under Danish colours.
Wish this Gentleman I proceeded to old Theunie-
sen's, at Teckliesihuis. The Captain was received
most kindly, but I observed a colduess in all towards
me, and the old man wet almost rude. This was
accounted for in the course of the evening.—..
The !unities, of the limes, and the difference of
the Dutch and English Governments, were occasion.
ally alluded he At length the old gentleman said
he wee veventy-two years old, fifty of which had been
passed in Africa, and never before had he known
the Boors so unhappy or so wretchedly off. The
abolition of the shove trade was the principal cause.
Slaves were now diffieult to be got, and the Holten-.
tots who used formerly to be procurable in numbers
had of late years decreased, slid those that reform-
ed hail flocked round the itlissionariee, who had
taught them the valuer of their labour and hire was
now demanded • dollar a day for ploughing, and
four shillings for other labours; that, thus deprived
of hand., the Governor had a year ago increased the
t ores and assessed the land tenures. Formerly for
30 dollars a year, an eitate of 3,000 inorgaria,
relent to 6.000 acres, was held, that then 30 dollars
were in some estates with difficulty raised, and 11001
that hands were scarce and the formers must them-
selves plough, reap,, and even drive their own wag-
gons, an nicreased revenue wa. to he paid; be-
sides the mode of fixing the increase was parti-
cularly objectionable. as the ipse disie of the lewd-
Mt is taken and Hoed upon.
Why does not Goverannent, said the old mate ap-
point a Committee ? let them go to, and fairly ex-
amine the espahiliiies of reels estate—then wises*,
mid we would cheerfully pay. When you were in-
troduced to me des evening as an Englishman. a
thought of my own wrongs overcame whet was due
to a stranger and a treveller, and I received you
unkindly. Forgive me, said he, and he stretched
out his hands, which I shook, and I then pointed
out to him the selfishness of suffering his individual
losses to itiflornee him to condemn the act of the
government, 11u protection of which he enjoyed.
and above all Ilidt noblest :let and greatest b!essitsg•
to mankind, the abolition of the slave trade. It was
self agam, I told him, that iiiiiner.l him to blame
the worthy Missionaries, that though tie.-ir labours;
might have taken a few hands 1.10111 the tirnierY -
they had civilized a set of savage., and had taught
them to know themselves, and consequently their
value and the cheerful labour% of the free men would
be more serviceable to them than the forced work of
the slave. At length the old vent lemon ad tut tted
truth of what I heal said, and proposed *spies, mud,
we were great friend's. He told erne his .estate,
called the Zickeiihnie (the hospital), was the
healthiest place in all Africa, that she last time the
English took the Cape of (ions) (lope, a detects-
rueut of the Bth dragoons was quartered with hire.
end that during eight yearn tint a matt bad died of
I reliefs. This lie greatly attributed to his.
I hiving given them corned meat every MIK" day.
The supper parted over very pleasantly ; the youtig-
ladies, not aware that 1 uniteritecel Dwell, were.
quizzing me Properly.: The family consisted eV
fire eons wad three deughteri, and they were all matt.

Act " it; huiorrs of laurel ;" Puerm.—Song,
" Bid we eitatursrae;" Venus and Adunis.—Finale," Wbeu
that I was ;" Twelfth Night.
Irt Act IV. will he introduced Sitaktqware's Grand Masque of

25IliJune.—Mr. and Mrs. Leitner, missionariev,
accompanied me about the villages. All about the
cottages of the Christians was neat slid cleat,, and
formed a great contrast to the dwellings of the yet
unconverted. They were living in kraal.. an rd.
act representation of which is given iu by Kolhern.
Mins Travels. The women appeared much attached
to their children, and a thee little girl, • few months
•thecting toy notice, I took it op and naked
the mother to a-II it, and Mrs. Leitner, I said,
would give her too dollars. She burst into pairri,
fell at my feet, and begged me to return her infant.
for not for millions would she part with her. The
real Hottentot rare appears to be now siculy extinct
at the Calw, owing to the cruelties of the first
Dutch settlers, who without mercy or coasideratiess
destroyed million*. A mixed race is now g..acrei,
and the term •• Bastard" is used by the. Dutch
Ladle's without any ceremony. The real Hottentot
is towily distinguished from them as they are from
the Kotler% who resemble the negroes„ and ate a
fine, stout, well-made race. The Hottentot is the
Chinese exactly, of a yellower tinge, and instead of
the long stisur,i, it black hair, ha. a woolly head. to.d
,jruf small stsrare, but ditkring again from theweol
of the tirgro.4. The Keifer, are rarely seen on the
Cape side of the Great Fish river. One of them
liepisened to be here, a fine, well-matte fellow. Wee
oent to hi* knied. Ile told me in Dutch he was
poor and wretched, too bad to become a Christian,
and could neither afford a wife nor • servaat,
ever, as I had crime over the great sea to visit him,
fortune would dembtleins snide upon Imo.
We turned back, and pasting the houses of the
brethren, went north towards the trlcolitteilk% A
small path leads you thmugh a ravine, the village is
soon lost sight of, and crossing a strearti of water, a
large rock prevents itself, funning a c :noisy over a
kind of grotto. Uri*. the • Boresinarees often have
tee sterner. Attairwp•odang- further op' the ?lon,
we had Wien tew•ossadge :midi deep, nun es kure
groling deepiei Sick but hutruoi Wu.
Leitner•brra await have Insistetreilin
as I was atilritteti se Peuctb-life StititilOw ' •
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• Vied and comfertably settled in farms, within sight
of their parent's
84th Ju •• qok leave this miming of this re-
epee-table 7ilY As the late rains had much swell-
ed the river Zwsrt, I was to Cross it in a host near
the house or William Theunieeen, one of the mos:
to about en hour tie runic to the crowing-o,re.
end hind great troubfe is getting the horses over.—
They swain sloogide the small boat our were in,
which coteitatilly getting on their backs, jerked the
reins out of our bends, and oft went the hersea to
the shore again. At last we ell got across, and
possum along the side of the Zonder-end moms-
talus, arrived in about too hourtot Harlan's Kloof.
when Gaspar gsllopped to the Krawl of his frow.
awl I rntle up to the honer orMr. it'd Mrs. Leitner,
who with the either Minsinneries received me most
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sad congratulated me on my safe worn.
have already mentioned this enieelleirt luatitow
time. The Mooted Bretlsrent of Moravia, tribe...their
origin to the Waldenses, a Society which exiloe,l
snot, slier the time of 11. e Apostle+, and wl"ch
during the long' religious all odgle 00 the
pent, sn nobly supported the Protesistit
They first sent 141..aionaries to the Cape of Good
Hope, in the tear 1737, who established themselves
at Ravioli's Kleof, but tin encourageinrut being 1
'given to tlietir by the Government, and no brethren
corning out, the establishment in a few year. crowd
to exist*. However, in the year 1792, several bre-
thren again came out e-talrbslsed thein.elves io
the former village at Devisor's Kloof Olookey's
Pass), gave it the name of Greet-elide, and it has
yea. ig since been intressmg in numbers and lime.
No enthusiasm, no fanaticism, but too general
amongst the English Missionaries, is ever to be been
oith them. they consequently are much more suc-
cessful in their vineyard. Their congregation at
present consists of 3.309 Hottentots melt, women,
and children. of whom 935 have been baptised. In
the village are 210 cottages, which consist of two
rooms; one for bleeping, and the other for cooking,
which operati,•ii is thus performed. A bar elms
acme the middle of the room, from which is set-
;moiled several iron chino*, and in them are hung
the iron pots. but rw nutlet for the smoke, save the
door. TiltireiVintecustons therefore of delighting in
smoke sod grease is not to be overcome. all
else clestiliisess and nowise,' is •npreent. The t
church was built by subscription. It is a neat plans
building, holding about 1400. No one Is hvitzert
before they are spoken to, the men by the brethren,
the women by the sinters. if found not to he
aware of what they are about to receive. if not really
anxious for it from conviction of the bevielltr, the
ceremony is deferred. Neer the ehuseb is stasall
'lest building. the school-reons for loote:ectiaivelle
children.
It was built in 1814. the fonds raised hey sub-
scription, and the Rev. Mr. Jones, Colonial Chap-
lain at she Cape. greatly assisted this charitable act,
and several gentlemen from India put down their
In this room, four times • week. are 200
children, from S to 14 yeses old, collected. and are
instructed in reading end writing; the boys by the
men, the gods by the women, each having separate
hours. The plan of instruction is nearly that el
Linea-ter. The boys when fit are apprenticed to
the trades they ace best adapted for, and each of the
Nlowitaisaries superintends • gtertictilar one. The
girls are also brought up to he useful. and llro.
Leitner has introduced amongst them, the working
in muslin. &c. similar to the chicken work in
Calcutta, and as well executed. These, together
with the knives. chairs, &e. are eagerly bought
up at Cape Town. and the proceed. nearly pay ell.
the expenses of the essablishmeor. They alry
make their own wines. brandies. and candles,
though situated at the font
' mountains, amid surrounded by hills on all sides, le
considered very healthy ; the general complain, as
indeed in South America, is consumptiosi. Cosy
thrive well, but sheep do not. All vegetables grew
Iwell, except mild/ Jivers, and the vineyards are
luxuriour.

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