The National Register.
London, England, 1820-08-13 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL ILEGISTEA.

ARRIVAL, OF THE SETTLERS AT ALGOiI BAT.

The John transport arrived at Portsmouth late on.
Tuesday night front the Cape of Good hope. The
Jai* took out 600 settlers for Algoa Buy, princi-
pally from Lancashire. The passengers were se-
verely attacked with the measles on the voyage
out, but'from the great attention pail them, they'
soon recovered from its effects. The following
is a letter from one of the settlers who went out:—
" My hear Friend—Accept a hurridd statement of our
situation, as fur as I have experienced it. We arrived
at Algoa Bay, after a tedious passage from Enaland,
during which ave experienced sufficient pitionvi tire
seal excellent arrangements of }he Government for noir
comfort. I have been up the country as far as Gra-
ham's Town, and a mpie ciefighiffil one cannot be ex-
pressed. The first landing at Algoa Bay is a little int-
pieatatit, occasioned by a continued surf, but once lauded
your greatest difficulty is over. You then apply to the
proper officer, who has a surveyed Government plan
before I • of the intended settlement, marked out in
lots, of from 100 to 10,000 acres. Especial care is
taken that every lot has a good spring of water and well
wooded. Yon are then asked the number of followers
you have, each being allowed lOU acres. This being
ascertained, the quantity of land you want is sought for
on the Government map, without any partiality. An
authority is then given you to take possekon. Too
praise cannot he given to the Governor for those
arrangements, If you have not brought waggons, they
Cart be procured of the Boors, with a team of oxen, and
off yon 'set. The settle cent is about 190 miles from the
sea. You pass a good Dutch farm every lb or WO miles.
The government sell you a good tent fur two guineas,
which you s.t up every night, making a blazing fire,
and, sot rounded by your team, sleep in the greatest
safety. We found on our arrival several respectable fa-
milies already housed. One gentleman, who brought
out an iron roof, was housed, with all his family, in
three days and nights, by lodging his roof on stumps of
trees, plastering up the sides, and giving it a good white
washing, which had a most comfortable and novel
effect. The climate here is so good that you have four
crops a year. By way of experiment, we planted some
potatoes just after a rain, and they appeared in three
stays. The road up to the Settlement is very good. and
excellent pasturage every where for your cattle ; plenty
of water and ber. Tell Tom to be sure to bring out
a waggon; as also some vine slips of ,the best kind,
which are scarce. Tobacco will grow here very well.
About 3000 of us have arrived. Lieutenant Charles
Church, the Government Agent, not satisfied with the
kindness he 'hewed us on board the ship, accompanied
us part of the way up the country. I should have said
the Government will victual at sixpence a head till you
provide yourself."

THE NEW REGULATIONS AT BILLINGSGATE
MARKET.
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Several of the oyster-boat proprietors, and others
interested in the trade, appeared benne the Lord layor,
to answer the complaint of Mr. Mitchelson, the Under
Water Bailiff, and several other otlicers of Billingsgate
Market, who charged them with disobedience to the
Lord Mayor's orders, which directed that an existing
cause of great public inconvenience shourd be removed.
The Lord Mayor, who had the assistance of Alderman
Atkins upon this occasion, said the City Lands Coin-
mhte had, after a great deal of deliberation, resolved upon
prescribing a inure limited jurisdiction to the oyster pro •
prietors as to the landing. That Com ttt iitee had, he was
convinced, the public interest in view in reeomniending
the regulation, and the defendants must find their own
advantage eventually iu the arrangement.
The proprietors, one and all. declared that the alter- •
atiuns alluded to was nut sought for -by the public,
although it might be attended with suing advantage to
those who were most anxious to have it effected. They
thought it an extreme severity, that alter, having laboured
for many years at the trade, all at once such a check upon
their profits should be given. lit tact, if its Lordship
persisted, the business could not be none, and the punk
would suffer a very serious inocnvenience ; besides that,
the proprietors would sustain irreparable injury front the
stoppage of the trade, the boats at a distance übt being
to be come at in proper time for sale, and the comutodity
being very perishable.
Alderman Atkins said, the boats should beitrrariged•.
in regular order in the dock, anti as one twat we dri-
charged, anothol should take its place. By ihts plan
the buyer could easily go from boat .to boat th fNuse
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oysters, instead of being obtol.to take them-at the dis-
cretion of the cobberi Pr .agoits.
The proprietors said, it was imprissible that such a plan-
could succeed; the dock beitig'veiby small, and theamval
ofoyster.boats very great every thoroteg. They were wil-
hug to preventall iticrhivenielicbtd the Minkel, by sending
the oys ers round by Dark-housellatie. Onoof them de-
dared that he hied-paid 1091.7 a week fOr the inetage—
Another, that he had laid mit, in' two seasons,. 3:-Vitol..
dud a third, that lie had, since he bonnuenced trade, laid
out 130,0001. in oysters alode. They begged That,
instead of -putting the order into execution, two ladders
would be allowed to them from the side of the Market tol
.he bratits, by which the disadvantages they laboured
under for some time would be removed, and the public
benefited.
The Lord Mayor said he was determined that the
experiment should be tried, and was of opinion that•it
would he successlitl. . The proprietors at the since tune
sl hi have ali possible facilities of latioing.
The Proprietors withdrew; declaring that the greatest
possible Ctlllillbil/11 Would take ;dace, and expressing their
dissatisfaction strongly, but respectfully.

On Tuesday afternoon a communication was made
from the Secretary of State's Otfit:e to the Police
Magistrates, requesting that none of them would be
absent from town on the 17th inst.