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

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

seal, their on n religion. They have overspread tar country,
though thinly ; their numbers tire hot incur:wing ; they are
lookiii.; out for lands for their soli* sod daughters; nieir
interests are opposite to thin* of the new Settlers; they
have brought down upon the Colony the nuimosity of two •
"flei,llizetl nations, and this situation of things enters into
the whole coMposition of their alia.ra. The Dutch and
German languages must be lerweed by the new Settlers,
hich latter must become Dutch and Germans themselves;
for it would contradict all experience to expect than the
imitation will take plate on the side of the old inhabitants
and the majority, isoilead of that of the new inhabitants
and the minority. —Mr. Mitchell, a writer who describes
himself as having travelled its the back country of the Cape,
proposes to obviate some of these objections, by collecting
the English Settlers in a separate • onmiunity, on the banks of
of the Sea-cow River ; but that country, in which Mr. Bur-
chell, as be Informs us, fouud only inoffensive and friendly
nutters, cannot be approached but through a region, which
the Dutch have lieu obliged to abandon, on account of the
hostilities of the exasperated Bosjesmans.
9. HOSTILITY of Twe N Aviv xs.--That. wart of the
Colony of the Cape of Gond Hope, which, is other respects,
must be most eligible for the retry' of the English
Seltlers,and to which the views of his Majesty's (Inver 1111 l COM
(iulluenced, as it is probable, as well as by lot al policy, nw
by home ) are reported to be turned, is esposed to
the ravages of tae Callres oil the East, and of the ilinjes.
mans, or wild Hottentots, out the North. The colonial
quarrels wall these two nations are not green, and such as
inusi be expected every where, between foreign cot ',is
and the natives of the soil; but ate the growth of yea :5, tool
ensanguined and embittered by long series of reeiptiteill
ha barn les. of the perpetration anal provocation of a Melt
the New Settlers are equally i 11111 l cent, but of which they
most bear the consequences.
W. GOVERNMENT AND LAWS —lf every other ()Nee-
tutu were removed, there %ttal still reinaio dile, of some
inaptitude, when the pies • re, arils the removal of En-
glishmen, into a country where the form of Government al-
lows of nothing its c with English lilies ties, and
where the laws, whether better sir worso, are, for the mo.t
part, wholly diaeresis from those under which they have
horn and bred. The Cape has nia house of assembly, ho
freedom of the press, our no trial by jury ; no consent of
the governed it/ laws either of police or of revenue. Though
sway. d by the British sceptre, it participates neither iu
the British constitution, nor in the British laws..* Some of
its Inns, the diversity of naish, from the Ili itish, is here
spoken of, come i 111 l e to, the misst ordinary itscidents of
life, and press for the examinati 111 l of every inch% woe!.
The laws of marriage and divot re are of this number. Di.
vorces are obtainable for causes unheard of In this country ;
and it is open to unprincipled emigrant husbands, has.ing
first removed their is ives to the Cape, to ultimo .disuicss
upon the most unexpected grounds. 'Thus, fu all our news
of the Cape—of the coiotruction of ifs society, us well as tic
the quality of its soil and climate ; —of its tatic,ll9o. REMO'
Hers, religion, gove . tit and laws;—it is a foreign bun-
try, and not inertly a.distaut portion of English trrrstury—
uti
English colony, such as Ilse uninformed doubtlessly es•
teens ii; and to crown all, this furesgu country is the actual
theatre of foreign and ferocious wasse—wars in the ea ,gin of
which, Englishmen have neither given nor rmetved tojury,
and in the conclusion of, which. their hearts are wanton
ante, est.

'nye Or DCPARTORE FROM Tttts COuriTitY.—
It remains only to take notice of a pilot of the arraugements
of his Majesty's Goverunient, conceriong wloit b it seems
ditlicolt to offer au explanation, and the aqua itauce of
hich, nevertheless, is of the highest order; for if the Cape
really possessed every allurement, and acre INTO itipaniva
by NO bUttiect tor hesitation, hall, tat proper frabl/11 lot em-
barkation fur it a %mid be entitle(' to the must ssraiiis regard.
lu a posteript to the printed letter which appears to hove
been the host, circulated from Dow • -sheet, it is saint
that " in order to insure the urrival of the Settlers, at the
Cape,ca the beginning of the planting season, the trans-
puh is will not leave this country till the mouth of Nevem'
her." Now, the seasons of the year, as Nall he Well finis
e than one statement contained in the Cu:twist! Journal,
No. IV. us aell us other sources of information, are, at the
Cape of Good Hope, the exact opposite of those to Englaud.
The English autuniii is the Cape spring. The voyage to
the Cave is estimated ut three issoutht; .and ships, sailing
from this country in the beginning ul November, are there-
fore to he expected to reach the Cape in the begioing of
February ; that is, at the 1•0.1*00 h,f 4111110lb:int' barrenness,
and not at the planting seasoo. The rpriug planting season
at the Cope, b.giois N tilt September, said settlers, to arrive
at the Cape at that time, ought to have this t ()wary iu the
Negotiant; of June : tar proofs, consult the comparative
Table of the Seasons, and the Cape of Good Hope Rural
Calendar, contained• in the Colonial Joui hal, No. IV; but,
for further proof, hear the words of Air. Harlow, in hi.
Preface to his Travels into the Mai ior u: Suutieeru Aft ice.
The passage comprises, besides, slime qualifying remarks
ou the general character of the Cape, to respect edits ye-
generic riches:—" In the iostauce 0( the Cape, as to must
other cases, we may probably discover the to nth to lie in
the middle. It idlers nothing very peculiar, either hit lie
productive quality of the soil, or iu its sterility. Where
there is moisture, the vitriol I, of the climate promotes
on, without the preparation of an at liticial soil, by
the aid of composts or mouses: Mawr, one crop of grain
in the year miry be procured Irmo the shallowest sail, and
even f "beer sand. Hut; isefiatunately fur the country,
ia the ho/test atone/is of the year, from the beginning of De.
readr.r to the read of March, et..d sometimes to the middle of
. Apa it, there sm,-casi fele a stmgle shower of rain. Jut these
, atoolihs Vie verdure totally disappears; and the sehok surface
f the coutary picsents to the rye, either large tracts of
a late sand, dotted with slit is elled heaths and other *boobs,
struggling, as it were, to maintain the living pi inciplc, uh
reg. cuvereu Nitlt that brim ii sickly hue, in a lach-an
' angry poet, with more Nit than jieticei, has dressed the
surface of that part of our island to the matt:maid of the
aced t

"* For as the eye could mach, no tree was seen;
Eat th, tlad w ru,,et, the lively grecs.'"
" s AI r. ltarruw, " ;noising from a
long .e 4 trmts, and immediately meeting with most or the
Ii mupc:lit, and !taint: 4/f the tropical IfUltS, the Ca pc intl,t,
ila ,19.1b1, olttt. ar a most deli,4ln:Ul spud ; and such pelmws,
.halt and lauded Nita refreshinem.ts tut the
sitAlle. pail 01 Illeir voyage, are :tilt 60 tit RA amid LLag.
rtatg Utc We:U.IIIW: the value or time cuumitiy.—
autammwt• •-•immo, and ti.r, lat., are wt. Liken up with Ow beauty
;old vast mirmei.N mkt fluttering shrubs and loilthmue-rioted
'dale's, ilia, they UrellOok the windy bit/tat e out of a Inch
they grow, entirely hare of aay kind of grass, amid destitute
of that sugatul; ty WO; ism distinauishin6 a fcatutu of yur

OCT. 17.

happy island. Beautiful as the heaths of the Cape mast
unquestionably are, yet those aho have been accustomed to
look at them matured in the green houses of England, where
all or tof the humorous specie., and variety of the
ilea, are cielectrd into owe group, and arrituged se a. .
convey the must striking ell'ett,.would• be greatly disap-
pointed if they ea peeled to Awe' :Mein, in tbe•saiiir stale of
pflfeeiioll, in their natural soil." To revert to the planting
season, or scavons, it a wild 1w endless to cite authorities for
showing, that this, in the ('ape Spring, is from Ilw brgivai, g
of Siqrsenaber to the end of Nueensber ; a bile fi bet coda'
to March (the period within which ships sailing from Eng-
land in October or November should arrive) is -the hotte.t
time of the year ; the tune of Sommer, instead of tl,e time of
the time of the south-east aMk which, like the
sii Heel) of Naples, relay both the body and the mind ; the
the time when the plough cannot be put into the ground,
and alien wrist-lithe into the country Calllll/1 be pet formed :
The Cape Autumn befillS in March,- or even as late us tler
middle of April; and, therebire, to meet either the formai
or the Litter rains, Settlers should lruve this country, either
in the beigitinina of Jane, or else tu the begi iiii ii ig of J ammo y.
Under every aspect, his Majesty's Government, in the
plan which it has adopted for encouraging tin accession of
St ttlers at the !'ape, has taken upon itself a heavy responsi-
Witty ; a iesposisibility of a hick it is 11/11 Ille small st part,
tit it it a ill find itself ea:led upon to hear the aright of the
sins and ini.takes of others as well as that of its own. It
a ill be reproached as the parent of every disappointed hope,
and the contriver of every fraudulent bargain ; and no Ion.;
apace of tow, it is to he feared, it i l follow, after the depar-
inre and iliseinliarkation of the Settler., before it will find
the whole transaction a fruitful subject of cumplititit and
censure.

Several circumstances, it is understood, huea had the
effect of Minging, for the present, his Majesty's Covet ;meld
to a pause; and of these, our of the most prominent, as well
as the most easily guessed, is the state of the Catfre oac.—
In this situate oo of affairs, no emigrants, e eret those olio
claim its pledge as to toile, o ill be for o anted at the present
season, amt these, it is ...id, will be landed tit Cape Town,
a here their silitatioh it may be suspected, w ill not be a very
env iahle one. Time, then, briog to he gained, I. tus hope
th.tt his Majesty's Govei 'intent is ill nail itself of the upper.
t ) thus afforded it fur reconsidoing all the details at the
design.

•-See Colonial Journal, No. 111, page 50, No. YE,
page 310.

Till" REVENUE.

Abstract of the net produce of the Revenue of Great Britain (ex-
clusive of the arrears of waroluty on malt and property). in the
years and quarter ended loth Oct. ISIS, and 10th Oct. 1;51u:
showing the incluse or decrease on each head thereof.
YEARS.

Years ended lath Oct. Increase as Decrease as
compared compared
1819. 1819. with lain. with 1918.
(\t trams CIO ,5413,1a3 X 9,5`,Z78 el 3 ---1X969.363
I.: ICI Ye 22.136.082 22,98V,973 £9.4.6,71).3
Stamps 6,4'27,270 6,211,34'J
Phut-office ... 1,359.1i0ew 1.316,000 77,0. iii
ASISCSS. Tam, 6,173,833 6,178,432 3.;!1
Land Taxes . 1,04.920 1099,736 43,916
Miscellanea. 490,020 5 it. 1,055
49,289,3091 47,910,3& 953,2u81,322,141
=-- --
___

Deduct Increux.

ie as compered with the year 181
QUARTERS.

953,2 e

368,94 t

quarters ended Inth Oct. Increase asiDecreasc as
--- compared compared
1818. 1819. %kith 1818. 1 with 181 h.
----
CuMomit X 3,669,7011 2:753,167
Excise. 5.860.8144 3,1/74,687
&WIN, 1.67 Y. 165 1,575.437'
Must-otfsee.... 31.10,0tX) 375,000 1:15,M)
MR'S& TIVICS 787,426 781,44 b
Land Taxes . 181.801 1911.177 11'4376
Miscalaneo. 49,150 77,648 28,418 --
1--'--
12,587,109 11,435,5441 39,854 1,211,410
--I .

Increlise

DICTUM as

59.554

with the Quarter 1818 1,151,536

CARLILE'S TRIAL.
TO THE EDITOR.

Sir,—Perceiving, ion interning paper, that my name is
hat csitaccd in a mintier calculated to lead the public to
bet,cre• that 1 was instrumental in framing the dvtenct of
Nlr. Cathie, on his trial fur publishing Paige's " Age of
Reason," yuu will oblige me by ran-ding your relitlClS an
opportunity of knowing the true state of the case. Dialog
been oresent in Court, as an auditor, 1 was earnestly solar t-
ied at the close of the second day by several friends to the
Wirt ty of the press, to poiut out, in conjunction with two
liter:try gentlemen, those authors ss Ito had isritten the most
ably in defence of toleration, and unrestricted freedom of
opiniuti on religious subjects, and to mat k the passages.
)'his 1 assented to; nor dol.:qtr./bend that such a request
could have been refused by any liberal-minded nom, or
that the most scrupulous would find fault wait me fur haste:,
acquiesced in it. I accordinAly arranged, aim, as well as I
could in a.few hours,the writ morning, connected a series of
quotatious from Ai chhishop Tillotson, Bishop Squire, Dr.
Furneaus, Bishop Watson, Professor Linthoich,
Campbell, Mr. Lucke, Dr. Enfield, flit Rev Mr. %%'g rill,
the Hews Mr. Aspland, the Christian Reformer, and other
authorities of equal a eLlit and tendency. This was read
by Mr. Cathie, °dray third day, with inlerpolutions of his
own; and the, with the luau, of Erasures, Xli:tuir's Areopa-
gilica, Delauew on Nuticonforinity, a volume of Black-
stone, it tract by Lord Sowers, nod a few wen otos end
pamphlets, coustituted the whole of my exertions ou this
uraordilary occasion.

I ion, Sir, your obedient serinnt,
%IILLIANI HONE.

45, Ludg&tc•hill, October I.

Car:de, the bookseller, resided about two years ago.
in the Colonnade, Brunswick-square, at which tulle
he war a journeyman Unman, and was so miserably
poor, that he was then recctving relief frout the patoti
of St. Giles-iti-the-Fields.

OCT. 17.

FROM TUESDAY .VIGIEC'S
41y his Royal Ilighnesa the l'rincc of Wales, Regent of the
railed Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the name and
can the beluill of his liijiarty.
A PROCLAMATION,
GEORGE, P. R.
Whereas the Parliament stands prommed to Tuesday, the
2.1 day of Novembeenext. We, in the name and on the behalf of
his Majesty, and by and with the advice of his Majesty's Privy Council, do hereby publish and declare, that the said Parliament
shall be further pmrogued on the said 2tl day of November to
Tuesday the 23t1 day the said month; and we have given
.order to the Lord High Chancellor of that pail of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Great Britain, to
prepare a commission for proroguing the same accordingly. And
we do further hereby, in the name and on the behalf of his
illajesty, and by and with the advite aforesaid, publish and
declare, that the said Parliament shall, on the 23d day of
November next, be held and sit for the despatch of divers urgent
and importantadiurs; and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,
and the Knights, Citizens. and Burgesses, and the Commis-
',niers for Shires and Burghs of the House of Commons, arc
be:eby required and commanded to give their attendance
a,:cordingly, at Westminster, on the said 23d day of November
next.
Given at the Coen et Carlton—house, the I Ith day of October,
1319, in thekSiath year of his Maje.ty's
GOD SAVE THE KING.

At the Court at Carhon Howe, the 11th of October, present.
hi, Royal Highness the Prince Regent in Council. His Royal
•ilighneas having been pleased, in the name and on the belialt of
his Majesty, to appoint the Right Hon. George Hairy, Earl of
Simnforil and Warrington, to be Lord Lieutenant of the county
of Chester. and of the city of Chester and county of the same, his
I.ordahip this day took the oaths appointed to be taken thereupon,
ii:,tead of the oaths of Allegiance and Supreniacy.