The National Register.
London, England, 1819-10-18 00:00:00

happy island. Beautiful as the heaths of the Cape most
uuqueslionably are, yet those who have been accustomed to
look at tbem matured in the green houses of Engl.md, where
all or most of the numerous species, and variety of the spe-
cies, a►e cmlected into one group, and arrange,' so as to
convey the most striking elect, would be greatly disap-
pointed if they expected to meet them, ill the snow state of
perfection, iu their natural ,oil." To revert to the planting
season, or seasons, it would he endless to cite authorities for
"boa itag, that this, io the Cape Spring, is from the beginning
of s•pfember to the end of Nurember ; a bile from December
to March (the period within which ships sailing from Eng-
land in October or November should arrive) is the hottest
time ofthe year; the time of Summer, instead of the time of
plantiug; the time alive south-eubt winds, which, like the"
Sirocco of Naples, relax both the body and the mind ; the
the time when the plough cannot be put into the ground,
and when travelling into the country cannot be pea formed !
The Cape Autumn begins in March, or even as late as the
middle of April; and, therefore, to meet either the former
or the latter rains. Settlers should leave this country, Tither
in the heghihin of June, tor else in the beginning of January.
Under every aspect, his Majesty's Oliver 1111 l ctit, it, the
plan which it has adopted for encouraging no access' of
ttlers at the Cape, has taken upon itself a heavy responsi.
It lily ; iesponsibilits of si Inch it is not the small. st purl,
that it will lied 'self ratted alum to bear the aright of the
sons and mistakes of others as well its that of its own. It
o ill b,. reproached as the parent of every disappoiatt d hope,
and the COlotroVer of every fraudulent bargain; and no lung
space of time, it is to het...area, will follow, after the depar-
tor- and iliseinharkation of the Settle's, before it a ill Gad
the a hole transaction a (wank subject of complaint and
ensure.

Several circumstances. it is understnod, have had the
effect of bringiol,, for toe present, hi: Majesty's Government
Ilia paws• 1 ond of t Nese, 40 c of Ilan must pritininen,, as well
as the most easily guessed, i the :tate of the Cairrr tsar.—
In This 4.114111[1911 of 1110 emigrants, exce,.l those who
adm its pledge as to time, Will he fora ardcd at the present
season, and these, it is s .id, a ill he landed at Cape Town,
%here their:Hu:oloh it may be suspected, will lint hem very
enviaole one. lime, then, hang to he gained, I. tus hope
th u has Majesty's Government a ill avail itself of the oppor-
tunity tuus afforded it for reconsidering all the details of this
design.

•-See Colonial Jouriial, No. 111, page 50, No. VI,
page 310.

TILE REVENUE.

Abstract of the net produce of the Revenue of Great Britain (ex-
clusive of the arrears of wairltiotyetr
BnliBa.l twainddl
PotmhP4rty. in
years and quarters ended o
showing the increase or decrease on each head thereof.
YEARS

Years ended 10th Oct. increase as Decrease as
compared compared
with 1518. with ►Bt6.
9.562,820
22,982,875 .ti 826,793
6,211,449
1,416,090 77,990
6,178,432 4,599
1,199.736 44,816
349,055
47,920,567 953,498

1819.

Excise
Stamps
Po tides
AS114:11S. Taxes
Land Taxes.
Mismllaaco.

zi T. 10,348,183
22,156,088
6,427,270
1,339,000
6,173,833
1,134,R20
490,0'

A:965,363

215,821

140,9G5

1,1i.2,14S

Deduct Increise..

953,24 N

spared with the year 181
TERS.