The National Register.
London, England, 1819-10-17 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

That full and precise intbrmation, in regard to the
Colony above-mentioned, is wanted by the public at !.
large, at a time when a pecuniary grant of the House
of Commons, and the intimations of his f tjesty's
Vovernlllellt, have turned the thoughts of multitudes
to emigrat►ng in that direction, will not be denied ;
and this want is the more apparent from the C;►ct,
that amid the meagre, though in some instances,
sit ffitiently boastful contributions, which, on the spur
of the occasion, the press has hitherto offered, none
but the thir side of the picture has been exhibited ;
no discriminating hand has been stretched forth, to
separate the bad from the good, nor no warning
voice lifted up, to forbid unfounded expectations,
nor prevent improvident adventure. His Majesty's
Government has proposed emigration to the Cape of
Good Hope, and immediately the press has seemed
anxious only to stimulate the appetite for the under-
taking, without reference either to the difficulties or
the evils to be encountered abroad, or to the mis-
takes, and. even the frauds, which are to be appre-
&ended at home.
The features of less agreeable appearance, which
the intended English settler should contemplate, be-
fore he resolves on departure fur the Cape, and
especially before he enters into any engagements to
that end, are not few, and shall here, in part, be se-
verally, though briefly, pointed out.
I. Tae Voy diuiers of a pasiage, in a crow-
ded ship, nem, the eqaator, to ih,• southward of it, iii the
summer semen, (November, Weather, and Januttr), 111{Ol
but he overlooked.

eLIII4/11.—Stinitthing too much has probably been
generally said roofer's's% the excellence of the t Innate of
the Cape of Go id Hope, especially its refer rat e in the bodily
tout mental esertiora of Cur ispersiis Oar ed under its influence.
S. Larauutt.--;All the labour, ut present performed in the
Colnny, proceeds from persons of colour, either Hottentot
servants, oar Malay or African slaves. Thai fact is of
isaportance in an Mihaly of views.
et ire La emu ste.as —lt is by no ovens eertaM
that Enrsspean constitutioris arc physically maims. lit to
the perform:twee of bodily- labour at the Cape; but, inde-
pendently of this doubt, there exists inure 11100 0111: MOlOl.
&Moak), iu the arty. In all agricultu al settlements, in all
couutriea where the quantity of land and spontaireaus i no-
dileta of inpare owes instance the population, bodily labour
b is peculiar emitemp ; at like Cape of Good Hope it is
kuown to be underriably so. The whites do nothing. Every
white man, however poor, and however wretched, prefers
the endurance of those evils to labour, and especially io sec.
witud--. Thus, a labouring man in Emgland, cunt inning to
be a labouring inaot the Cape, will God the hardship Mhos
is considerably igkravated.
5. C•err•t..—The peter of labour at the Cape, whether
performed Icy slaves or by free Remiss, is exceedingly high—
a consideration of great importance to the capitalist. If
:melt an one should attempt to !emedy the evil, by carrying
Indented labourers trims this country, the circumstances
refereed to in the preceding paragraph a ill invo:ve him in
raffles. trouble. 'I. he labaurers will fiat, at or sums after
their arrivals. that they have ;ward to what they in 110
Itsibel:l, understood; they sill aspire to be masteis, they
viilldeyi:serutr.tiot, :Lad they will prefer Ir v log with the
riuttentots ur Cultres, in a state of naleTendeace, to living
with their brother Europeans in astute of servitude.
ti. 1. ANI us.—Many difficulties wvll present themselves to
capitalists, in tile obtaining of lands suitable in point of
situation, and safficient in "mitt of ext,iit ; ars for
which the state of the surface, and the character of the
climate in Cogitate!, can in no wise have prepared them;
but when (as it issaid to be the ease; unfortunate and ienti-
twit peruses wafer themselves to be indeuted, in this country,
for three or four years' service, at the price of mei ivirig
ttecnty-fire saris of land at the end of the term, no words
eau es press, with sufficient strength, the grossness of the nu-
prisitian. "Twerity•five acres of laud, in the Colony of the
Cape of (food Hope, must, in 010304 every case be tiara
ii.dhing at all. *. The pursuer," 6;1)1 a circular letter of,
Emil Bathurst, " tinder vtti se oir.e,sitai a party of settlers
psuceeds, is at liberty to amore their services by any legal
agreement 000 .thick they may Clink proper to eater.'
This paragraph unavoidably points to it sweat of mhi
litany t-tior int speculators, and some bad minds, will certainly
take ;Aran e hasp already heard in England, of
redemptismers and white slaves in the United States of
America,. We shun now bear of them at the Cape of Good
Hope.. These " legal agreements" ail. be found cruelty
oppressive ; the servants w ill a:, fro in the": COOIIIICII, a al
the appeal will be to—Dutch laws. Ilia Majesty's Ga.
ttttt Cif!, so far from lending its C10011C11:1111se 10 these
"legal igreeinenta," ought to provide eqm tab c relief fur the
ueluded victims of them, by propris;in; to Parliament a Bill
101 rendering Doll and void all contract, for service within
the Colony of the Cape of 60u,l Hope, either formal y or
•irtually entered into, by any person, oat being a native
the Cape, either its Europe, ur else% here, at any time *atria
two months after his first arrival at the Cape; provided
always, that if, in pursuance of any sup i! coutract, tory
service shall have beets actually performed, then the servant
Isbell be trainee. to receive under it a proportional part of
Iris stipulated reward.

7. WANT OF MAItILETS.---Want of markets, and of
ineatt► of conveyance to market, form another subject for
the iierieus cousideiation of the captallst ; and these evils,
to whatever cau.e they may be on iiisr, are confessed to
at the Cape of Good Hope. Herr. too, it beeMs
proper to observe, that this and miser source, of lhr tion,
rind Other consequent causes of tile addi. lion to vice•, fin
%hick the Colouistii are to lima. blanwit, w al, there is too
much 'casual to ,l•ur, be found equall) to civvies, Faigliblosirn,
and uhimuteiy to produce a large pinelson of siniiiiai ily in
the eltieracter and toodact of the Settler., of whatever nation.
Let it hr ad.led, that so Filuilisr speculation,, theta:our:Li feria
ttly of the soli u. C:::1114te, ur the tieusutesi, or any kind, ss Inch
stature may idles, taa4lll to he. ::ccotluu•d fur %vv.!, litae,
irsicept where lhrj ale .sc.ompariird hy a ilNuaint nrnlatGel.
b.—LANGL et.r.3 ASO NIANNERt OF TON
COLONISTS.—IIIe two emsnot tilortst to find weer
nor even their undertakings, is.dependent of the
present Co:insists. These are intriguers, who speak their
nap languase, pesscaa their wan riliumerr, and rural
.with