The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-13 00:00:00

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The folloyriggjol Wimple but stairs *serif,.
WNW of %et waraino, " the htendred-gated
City :"--
06 Ire coitthwed oar voyage. wed arrived at Gamete on
the 214 at Mew Os Ilse OK we raw fee the lest time
the noise of the /cost Thisbe", MY 1. JM at Lowe. Mere
I het the dada to Memos, that but very lorporfref WM.
eat he firmed of the eatetaive mime of Thaws evea frees
the aceinsets of she awe skilful sod scrurate issvelkas.
It Is absolutely Iseposeilde to imatlite Ike Pero,' 4110M*Y"lo
without idiom It. The wort metalline Mess that ram be
formed from the most emagailfiedit mserimidis of our wi-
sest architecture, would give a veep insurers picture of
these reins; foe such is the dilfereser, awl wily em suagoi-
lode, but Is fors, proportion, mud constriction, that erem
the proeil eats enovey bet • feint idea of the whole. It
soldered to we like catering a city of giant", who, after
• loag doodid, were all destroyed, leaving the rain, of
their various Temples as the oily proof of their firmer
existent*. The temple of Loszue premed to the traveller
at and, toe of the must splendid poops of Entities,
gramdeer. The extensive propylaeum, with the two obelisks
sod colossal statues its the frost; the thick groups of
ristesmoses colutime; the variety of apartments, and the
'smeltery it cookies; the beautiful ormassests which
adore every part of the walls and allows*, described loy
Mr. liaosilose, reuse in the tided of the astonished
traveller am oblivion of all that he lies area believe.
If his lineation be sttrietrd to the 'meth side of
Thebes by the towering remains that project • great
height shave the wood of pales trees, he will ;radially
ester that forestlike assemblage of daises of temples
celunins, obelisks, colossi, sphyozes, portals, •• cod.
Ives needier of other astoulebia; object., that will coo-
•imre him at once of the impossibility of a description.
Oa the west side of the Nile, still the traveller hide him-
self simoogst wonders. The tempiks of Gourmet, Mesmon-
snow, and Mediate Also% attest the extent of the great city
on this side. The 'twiddled colossal Sews is the plains
of Thebes the number of tombs led its the ruchs,
those in flie great valley of the kings, with their inhaling",
dulpieres memoirs, sarcophagi, egeres, &e. are all
jeeto worthy of the adiairatioe of the traveller, who will
sot fail to wonder bow • nation which was mire au treat as
to eruct these stopemdous edified, could SO far Nu into
oblivion, that even their language sad writing are totally
unkotion to us."

NEW SETTLEMENT AT THE CAPE

OF GOOD HOPE.

EXTRACT ?ROM A LETTER. DATED OLD BLUE
KRANTZ, AI.GUA BAY, AUGUST 23, 1830,.

" I shall only at present give you a short account
of what has taken place Deuce our arrival up the
country, and k ive the first of our journey to u more
leisure time. We are located shout a hundred
mil-s front Algoa Bay, in one of the finest parts of
the colony. My firm is, without exception, the
best I have yet seen. To attempt to describe the
beauty of the Blue Krantz, is far beyond my pen ;
nothing cafe possibly exceed it ; the land is capable
of producing any kind of crop—tlire are abundance
of springs in almost every part of the farm, in bean.
trial fi-Ida of about 100 to 200 acres, interspersed
with the liuest tress, with shrubs nod flowers of
every kind the most delightful. I am nt a loss where .
to build my house, as in every field there he most
inviting situation. I have, however, determined, I
think, on a rising ground, where nature his done
more fur me than any one foetid atiempt to accom-
plish with thousands i a their pockets; it is,
without a word of joke, laid out to my hand
equal in every respect to any gentleman's park in
England. My property extends about three miler
in a valley aurtounded with immense mountains;
I have the finest and largest trees, sod plenty of
stone for building; in short, the place altogether
far exceels toy expectations. I shall by and by
be able to live like a King, but it has been and
will be for a time of little worth, as I must he at
the head of every thing niretr. Londoners are
the worst of people for such an undertakii•g.
llsd 1 had ten Scotsmen with me, or peoplii
bred to fanning, 1 would have (tone well. I
could at this moment employ a score, but
bail as things are I loiwe ulrrudy ploughed and
sowed about thirty acres of wheat and bailey, winch
look beautiful. It is customary to plough with
twelve oxen here ; this I can easily accomplish with
four, or with two horses, hissing just hit upon the
proper kind of Scotch plough. The oxen are err-
tinily the fintst I ever raw, but devils to work,
never in haste: in this department there is great
room for improstmeot, as well as in t very thing
else, especially the dairy. The cows are good, but
badly managed ; complete devils ; un butter, no
cheese. Sheep and gusts very fine; the wool capa-
ble a improvement. I forst' small, and MAC, used
but for the saddle, on which I have role two days
one hundred miles—fed on nothing but grass ; they
get on wonderfully at a hand-gallop—eanoot leo%
You will no doubt expect me to give my (anint
opinion of this country, which I do m a few words.
It is, without exception, the finest I ever saw. The
land is a fine rich loam, capable of bearing any
thing; easily cultivated, and nothing in many
places required but to plough and sow. After one
bushel you generally have from sixty to rote hun-
dred in • favourable season. I have about one acre
under clop of potatoes, pease, cabbage, turnips,
rsdibshet, &c. Noileng can exceed the rapidity
of growth or the quality of the vegetable. The
winter lass been moderate, and is just over. The
climate carry thing one could wish. To make a
long tale short, my itchier is, that all my friends
should at coact come lore ; for 501. a year you may
live like a king. Poi. es of oxen, 3/. or 30 dollars
—rows, 93 dollars—sheep and goats, 3 to 4 dollars
—bursas, 50 to WO dollars—cheese, 11011 e—eggs,
none—butter Sri. to Mb Bring out cooking, iin,
and jauan ware. wearing auparll. shoes, bedding,
tobacco-pipes, nod a small assortment of twee,•
tarn.... but no luxuries-1.0 Ines 1.. r amusement—
shooting and hunting all day long. All kinds of
Euglish gunk's-seeds row here."

rriday moruinr, shout Wiliest asset, o'clock, the low
localises of No. 3, Allusuy-ormi, li liuburgh, possessed by
Mr. Mitchell, baker, and the ■partnteuts immediately 'burs,
occupied as the ArljittaithGeoeral's other, were doseinerr
to he no fire. The shoos of the 'Ace Wog forms!, the buul4
and papers weer happily sawed, although the flames were thru
sulking rapid destruction. By the time the fire-eugines
arrived (a little pawl eight o'clock), the fluor et the uliks
had f diets down, which *Worded ample scope for their play-
ing successfully, and bOlOl eXlistguibtitmg the flames, without
hatiou eommuutrated to the flats above, which are occupied
by the Mimes While, and other families, who were fur a
Mar its iMulltielit dash►. As yet it is out satisfactorily as-
certained whrthee the tire us igtuaied its the lower ur upper
spas tint nis. Mr. Mitchell's loss, it is believed, will be
considerable, as only a small part of his furniture was
rased. A guard of military is appointed Iv protect the
Pt mites.